Plant Diseases. Epidemics and Control

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
PREFACE, Pages v-vi
CHAPTER 1 - The Control of Plant Disease Studied as Part of Epidemiology, Pages 1-6
CHAPTER 2 - About Interest on Money. Logarithmic Increase, Pages 7-16
CHAPTER 3 - The Logarithmic and the Apparent Infection Rates, Pages 17-27
CHAPTER 4 - How to Plot the Progress of an Epidemic, Pages 28-39
CHAPTER 5 - The Basic Infection Rate, Pages 40-58
CHAPTER 6 - The Latent Period, Pages 59-74
CHAPTER 7 - Average Values of Infection Rates. Increase of Populations of Lesions and of Foci. Independent Action of Propagules, Pages 75-93
CHAPTER 8 - Corrected Infection Rates, Pages 94-110
CHAPTER 9 - Stochastic Methods in Epidemiology, Pages 111-117
CHAPTER 10 - A Guide to the Chapters on Control of Disease, Pages 118-121
CHAPTER 11 - Sanitation with Special Reference to Potato Blight, Pages 122-136
CHAPTER 12 - Sanitation with Special Reference to Wheat Stem Rust, Pages 137-156
CHAPTER 13 - Sanitation and Two Systemic Diseases. Sanitation when Other Things Are Not Equal, Pages 157-167,169-170
CHAPTER 14 - Vertical and Horizontal Resistance against Potato Blight, Pages 171-205
CHAPTER 15 - A Note on the History of Stem Rust Epidemics in Spring Wheat in North America, Pages 206-211
CHAPTER 16 - Plant Disease in Biological Warfare, Pages 212-222
CHAPTER 17 - The Bases of Vertical Resistance, Pages 223-233
CHAPTER 18 - General Resistance against Disease, Pages 234-239
CHAPTER 19 - The Choice of Type of Resistance, Pages 240-248
CHAPTER 20 - The Quantitative Effect of Horizontal Resistance, Pages 249-259
CHAPTER 21 - Control of Disease by Fungicides, Pages 260-274
CHAPTER 22 - How Disease Spreads as It Increases, Pages 275-284
CHAPTER 23 - The Cryptic Error in Field Experiments, Pages 285-308
APPENDIX, Pages 311-327
References, Pages 328-337
Author Index, Pages 339-341
Subject Index, Pages 342-349