Plant Pathology

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Contents
1 Introduction
2 History of Plant Pathology
3 Pathogenesis
4 Enzymes and Toxins in Plant Diseases
5 Alteration in Plant Physiological Function due to Plant-Pathogen Interaction
6 How Plants Defend Themselves Against Infection
7 Genetics of Plant Pathogen Interaction
8 Effect of Environmental Factors and Nutrition on Disease Development
9 Dispersal of Plant Pathogens
10 Plant Disease Epidemiology and Plant Disease Forecasting
11 Management of Plant Diseases
12 Plant Diseases Caused By Fungi—Characteristics of Plant Pathogenic Fungi, Classification of Plant Pathogenic Fungi
13 Rots, Damping Offs, Downy Mildews and White Rusts
14 Powdery Mildews
15 Smuts and Bunts
16 Rusts
17 Wilts and Root Rots
18 Leaf Spots, Leaf Blights and Anthracnoses
19 Galls and Abnormal Growths
20 Post-Harvest Diseases
21 Root Diseases
22 Seed-Borne Diseases
23 Mycoplasmas and Plant Diseases
24 Bacteria and Bacterial Diseases
25 Viruses, Viroids and their Diseases
26 Diseases Caused by Nematodes and Flagellates
27 Diseases Due to Angiospermic Parasites
28 Non-Parasitic Diseases
29 Application of Bio-Technology and Plant Pathology
30 Phytopathological Techniques in Plant Pathology
Index