The Nature of Disease in Plants

By: Robert P. Scheffer

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Hardcover | 16 June 1997

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336 Pages

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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.

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'Disease ecology is a growing and vibrant field. This book is a valuable contribution with its detailed coverage of the basic pathology of important plant diseases combined with a strong emphasis on their history, geography and ecology, and their socio-economic impacts. Anyone with an interest in disease from any of the above perspectives will find something of value here.' Keith Clay, Trends in Ecology and Evolution '... an enlightening book, and deserves to be read for the sheer pleasure of seeing a life-time of understanding digested and set down in clear and arresting prose.' Brian J. Ford, Biologist '... the work of a true scholar ... [the] case-study approach is marvelously holistic, detailed and informative.' Andrew Bent, Trends in Plant Science

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Acknowledgements
Perspective
Biology and Control of Plant Diseases
Causes and spread of plant disease
How pathogens attack plants
How plants defend against pathogens
Ecological considerations
Disease controls and their limitations
Natural History of Some Destructive Diseases
Native plants, alien pathogens
Alien plants, native pathogens
Pathogens overtake movement of crop plants
Monoculture: removal of ecological restraints
Monoculture: pathogen adaptability
Monoculture: Cochliobolus diseases with toxins
Monoculture: Alternaria diseases with toxins
Diseases amplified by changes in agriculture
Anthropogenic reintroduction each year
Abiotic diseases: damage from air pollution
Prospectus
Glossary: technical terms used in the texts
References
Index
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