A Textbook of Plant Pathology

A Textbook of Plant Pathology provides comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of plant pathology. It offers an introduction to plant pathology for those new to the field. The text covers approximately 50 diseases in crop plants, providing details of symptoms, disease cycle and control measures. The book is divided into two parts, covering the principles of plant pathology and important plant diseases in crops. The section on principles of plant pathology includes a history of plant pathology, symptoms of plant diseases, epidemiology and forecasting of plant diseases, host-parasite inter-relationships and their interactions, the effect of climatic conditions on plant diseases, physiologic specialization, defence mechanisms, methods of studying plant diseases, and principles of plant disease control. Every disease discussed consists of causal organism, symptoms, disease cycle, breeding, disease-resistant varieties and chemical control methods. The book also includes a list of periodicals on plant pathology.