Management of Plant Disease

Keeping plants healthy requires an understanding of the organisms and agents that cause disease as well as an understanding of how plants grow and are affected by disease. Because plants are a fundamental part of life on Earth, the study of plants is vital to human well-being. Plants generate the oxygen, food, fibres, fuel, and medicine that allow humans and other higher life forms to exist. Through photosynthesis, plants also absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that can affect global climate; they prevent soil erosion; and they impact the water cycle. This book offers the latest research and developments in managing plant disease.

Selected Contents: Acquisition and Evolution of Plant Pathogenesis; Effector Genomics Accelerates Discovery and Functional Profiling; Origin and Spread of the Scab Disease; Gene Banks Pay Big Dividends to Agriculture, the Environment, and Human Welfare; Host Multiplication and Virulence in a Plant-Virus System; Classification and Identification of Bacteria; Systemic Resistance and Lipoxygenase; Vector-Virus Mutualism Accelerates Population Increase of an Invasive Whitefly...