Essential Plant Pathology

Hardcover  349 pp  ISBN 0890543429      £78.00

The book is reader-friendly with important terms and concepts clearly identified. Special 'Did you know?' boxes will spark student interest by providing cultural and historical facts about plant diseases and every chapter will guide students to recommended resources, study questions, 'Words to Know,' Internet research exercises, and CD exercises.

The new Schumann/D'Arcy text comes packaged with a dynamic CD that will work hand-in-hand with the popular APSnet Education Center and provide students and their professors with an engaging way to learn and teach plant pathology. Instructors will appreciate the 400+ full resolution color images that may be used in their handouts and PowerPoint presentations. Other copy-and-paste text resources will help tie customized lectures to the textbook.

Special features:

• Its easy-to-read, open-page design has illustrations and boxed call-outs emphasizing critical concepts.
• 'In This Chapter' presents key concepts the students will learn.
• Disease Classics provide short boxed summaries of important diseases typically studied in introductory plant pathology courses.
• 'Did you know?' call-outs present cultural and historical facts about plant diseases to help students understand how plant pathology impacts the real world.
• Case studies help students understand the specific causes, symptoms, and cycles of important diseases.
• Each Chapter includes Study Questions to help students check their comprehension and Recommended Resources to challenge them to learn more.
• 'Words to Know' at the end of each chapter will improve your student's plant pathology vocabulary. Students will find these words defined in the Illustrated Glossary included in the companion CD that comes packaged with their book.
• Icons in the book identify direct links to specific CD and Internet exercises appealing to today's digitally oriented student. These exercises allow instructors to custom design virtual labs to complement their lectures.
• Full integration between the textbook, CD, and the APS peer-reviewed Education Center, the most popular area of APSnet. This is todays students Internet connection for key feature articles on hot topics written by practicing plant pathologists.

Every image and illustration in the book is included on the accompanying CD and ready to be copied and pasted into presentations.

Contents

Chapter 1: What is wrong with my plant?
How do we diagnose plant diseases? What is the plant disease triangle? How do we know what organism causes a disease? What are biotrophs and necrotrophs? What is a disease cycle and how can we use it?

Chapter 2: What are the causes of plant diseases? Fungi
What is a fungus? What symptoms and signs do fungi cause? How do fungi survive and spread? How are fungal diseases managed?

Chapter 3: What are the causes of plant diseases? Bacteria
What are bacteria? What symptoms and signs do bacteria cause? How do bacteria survive and spread? How are bacterial diseases diagnosed? How are bacterial diseases managed?

Chapter 4: What are the causes of plant diseases? Nematodes
What are nematodes? What symptoms and signs do nematodes cause? How do nematodes survive and spread? How are diseases caused by nematodes diagnosed? How are diseases caused by nematodes managed?

Chapter 5: What are the causes of plant diseases? Viruses
What is a virus? What symptoms and signs do viruses cause? How do viruses survive and spread? How are viral diseases diagnosed? How are viral diseases managed?

Chapter 6: What are the causes of plant diseases? Parasitic plants
What are parasitic flowering plants? What symptoms and signs do parasitic flowering plants cause? How do parasitic flowering plants survive and spread? How are diseases caused by parasitic flowering plants diagnosed? How are parasitic flowering plants managed?

Chapter 7: What are the causes of plant diseases? Abiotic factors
What are abiotic factors? What symptoms do abiotic factors cause? How are abiotic diseases diagnosed? How are abiotic diseases managed?

Chapter 8: What types of plant diseases are there?
What is damping-off? What diseases commonly affect foliage, flowers, and fruit? What are: vascular diseases? cankers? gall diseases? root rots? What is wood decay? What are post-harvest diseases?

Chapter 9: How do plants interact with pathogens?
Part I. Ecological interactions How do pathogens survive in the absence of their host plant? How do pathogens find their hosts? How do pathogens penetrate plants? Part II. Physiological interactions How do pathogens establish an infection? How do plants defend themselves? Part III. Genetic interactions What are the genetic interactions between plants and their pathogens? How can we create disease-resistant plants?

Chapter 10: How do people influence plant disease epidemics?
What is an epidemic? Can we predict plant diseases? How do people affect the susceptibility of plants to disease? How do people affect the environment of plants in ways that increase disease? How do people affect the ability of pathogens to cause disease? How do plant disease epidemics affect people?

Chapter 11: How can we prevent or manage plant disease epidemics?
How do we choose the appropriate methods of disease management? How do we: AVOID pathogens? EXCLUDE pathogens? ERADICATE pathogens? PROTECT plants? How can we create integrated, sustainable management programs?

Appendix 1. Disease classics

Appendix 2. Example diseases

Appendix 3. Rapid assays for pathogens