The Nature of Disease in Plants

ISBN-13: 9780521482479 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 336 str.

Robert P. Scheffer (Michigan State University)

Opis

This book is about how plants get diseases, from the origins and evolution of parasites to how the great plant epidemics developed. Conditions favoring disease are inherent in agriculture and diseases became destructive because of human activities. This book also deals with how people have dealt with plant diseases in history, and includes the natural histories of some of the most damaging plant diseases worldwide, with discussions of why each became destructive. It classifies diseases according to the most significant factors in the development of epidemics: every case involves a human factor. Each model disease proceeds from observable facts to more complex concepts.

Recenzje

'… the work of a true scholar … [the] case-study approach is marvelously holistic, detailed and informative.' Andrew Bent, Trends in Plant Science

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. Perspective; Part I. Biology and Control of Plant Diseases: 2. Causes and spread of plant disease; 3. How pathogens attack plants; 4. How plants defend against pathogens; 5. Ecological considerations; 6. Disease controls and their limitations; Part II. Natural History of Some Destructive Diseases: 7. Native plants, alien pathogens; 8. Alien plants, native pathogens; 9. Pathogens overtake movement of crop plants; 10. Monoculture: removal of ecological restraints; 11. Monoculture: pathogen adaptability; 12. Monoculture: Cochliobolus diseases with toxins; 13. Monoculture: Alternaria diseases with toxins; 14. Diseases amplified by changes in agriculture; 15. Anthropogenic reintroduction each year; 16. Abiotic diseases: damage from air pollution; 17. Prospectus; Glossary: technical terms used in the texts; References; Index.