| Description |
xvi, 464 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Causal Agents of Plant Disease: Identity and Impact -- 2. The Detection and Diagnosis of Plant Pathogens and the Diseases They Cause -- 3. Epidemiology -- 4. The Measurement of Inoculum and Disease Severity and their Effects on Crop Yields -- 5. Inoculum Control -- 6. Locating, Penetrating and Colonizing the Host -- 7. Subverting the Metabolism of the Host -- 8. Killing the Host - the Role of Toxins -- 9. The Plant Fights Back - 1. Constitutive Defence Mechanisms -- 10. The Genetics of Compatibility and Incompatibility -- 11. The Plant Fights Back - 2. Active Defence Mechanisms -- 12. Control of the Disease Process |
| Summary |
"Introduction to Plant Pathology provides comprehensive coverage of plant disease for plant science, plant pathology, biology, forestry and agriculture students. This invaluable resource introduces the eleven types of organism that cause disease, ranging from higher plants to viroids and describes examples of cash and staple crop diseases that have caused human catastrophes. Other chapters cover serological and molecular techniques for the diagnosis of plant pathogens, epidemiology, methods for estimating disease severity and its effect on crop yields and techniques for limiting inoculum." "Later chapters are concerned with colonisation of the plant and symptom development and the underlying biochemical and genetic factors that control these events. Finally, the control of plant disease using a variety of techniques including "genetic modification" is discussed."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Plant diseases.
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| LC no. |
2003016087 |
| ISBN |
047084972X (Cloth : alk. paper) |
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0470849738 (paper : alk. paper) |
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