Plant Pathology is a branch of agricultural science that
deals with the study of fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes, and other microbes
that cause diseases of plants.The contents in this notes are as follows :
Importance of Plant Disease, Scope and Objective of Plant Pathology, History of
Plant Pathology with special reference to Indian work, Concepts and terms in
Plant Pathology, Important Plant Pathogenic Organisms, Pathogenesis, Factors
Affecting Disease Development, Disease Triangle and Tetrahedron, Classification
of Plant Diseases, Abiotic Diseases and their management, General Characters of
fungi, Bacteria and mollicutes, Phytoplasma ,Spiroplasma ,Nematode,Viroids and
Algae, Virus, Phanerogamic plant parasites, Classification, Morphology and
Symptoms caused by Plant parasitic nematodes, Dispersal and survival of the
Plant pathogens, Pathogenesis-role of enzyme, toxin, growth regulators in
disease development, Defense mechanism in plant, Epidemiology: Factor affecting
disease development, Fungicides nature, chemical combinations and
formulationsFungicides Classification and Their Mode of Action, Antibiotics.
Author(s): Department of Plant Pathology, JNKVV College of
Agriculture, Tikamgarh
The purpose of this book is to treat
the subject of disease in plants with special reference to the patient itself,
and to describe the symptoms it exhibits and the course of the malady, with only
such references to the agents which induce or cause disease as are necessary to an intelligent understanding of the subject,
and of the kind of treatment called for.
This note explains the following topics:
Important plant pathogenic organisms, General Characters of fungi, Binomial
system of nomenclature, Myxomycota, Eumycota, Zygomycotina, Ascomycotina,,
Basidiomycotina, Deuteromycotina, pokaryotes: classification, Plant viruses,
Viroids, Phenomenon of infection, Pathogemsis – Role, Defense Mechanism, Plant
disease epidemiology, Plant Disease Forcasting, Remote sensing, General
principles of plant, Regulatory methods, Cultural methods, Biological control
and PGPR, Physical Methods – Heat treatments, soil solarization, hot water
treatment, hot air treatment, control by refrigeration and radiation, Chemical
methods , Host plant resistance, Application of biotechnology, Disease
Management and Integrated Plant Disease.