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Fifth Edition
By
George Agrios, University of Florida, Gainesville, U.S.A.
Description
This fifth edition of the classic textbook in plant pathology outlines how to recognize, treat, and prevent plant diseases. It provides
extensice coverage of abiotic, fungal, viral, bacterial,nematode and other plant diseases and their associated epidemiology. It also
covers the genetics of resistance and modern management on plant disease.
Plant Pathology, 5th Edition, is the most
comprehensive resource and textbook that professionals, faculty and students can consult for well-organized, essential information. This
thoroughly revised edition is 45% larger, covering new discoveries and developments in plant pathology and enhanced by hundreds of new
color photographs and illustrations.
Audience
Students in senior undergraduate and postgraduate level plant pathology courses, in departments of plant science, crop science, botany, forestry and related agricultural sciences.
Contents
1. GENERAL ASPECTS
2. PARASITISM AND DISEASE DEVELOPMENT
3. EFFECTS OF PATHOGENS ON PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS
4. GENETICS
OF PLANT DISEASE
5. HOW PATHOGENS ATTACK PLANTS
6. HOW PLANTS DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST PATHOGENS
7. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON
THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLANT DISEASE
8. PLANT DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY
9. CONTROL OF PLANT DISEASES
10. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT CAUSE
PLANT DISEASES
11. PLANT DISEASES CAUSED BY FUNGI
12. PLANT DISEASES CAUSED BY PROKARYOTES: BACTERIA AND MOLLICUTES
13. PLANT DISEASES
CAUSED BY PARASITIC HIGHER PLANTS,
INVASIVE HIGHER PLANTS, AND PARASITIC GREEN PLANTS.
14. PLANT DISEASES CAUSED BY VIRUSES
15. PLANT
DISEASES CAUSED BY NEMATODES
16. PLANT DISEASES CAUSED BY FLAGELLATE PROTOZOA
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 952 pages, publication date: DEC-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-044565-3
ISBN-10: 0-12-044565-4
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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