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Agrios' Plant Pathology

  • 6th Edition - May 28, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Richard Oliver
  • Language: English

Agrios' Plant Pathology, Sixth Edition is the ultimate reference in the field. Here, Dr. Richard Oliver provides a fully updated table of contents with revised and new chapte… Read more

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Agrios' Plant Pathology, Sixth Edition is the ultimate reference in the field. Here, Dr. Richard Oliver provides a fully updated table of contents with revised and new chapters and invited contributors from around the globe. Building on his legacy, this new edition is an essential read for students, faculty and researchers interested in plant pathology. Sections outline how to recognize, treat and prevent plant diseases and provide extensive coverage on abiotic, fungal, viral, bacterial, nematode and other plant diseases and their associated epidemiology. A large range of case studies take a deep dive into the genetics and modern management of several plant species.

Key features

  • Updates with a new edition of Agrios’ Plant Pathology, including information on molecular techniques and biological control in plant diseases
  • Includes numerous excellent diagrams and photographs
  • Provides a large variety of disease examples for instructors to choose for their course
  • Edited by a renowned expert in plant pathology, Dr. Richard Oliver

Readership

Undergraduate students, graduate students, and scientists in the field of plant pathology and agronomy

Table of contents

1. The history and development of plant pathology
Richard P. Oliver

2. Effects of pathogens and disease on plant physiology
Rumiana V. Ray

3. Pathogenicity—How do plant pathogens cause disease?
Pietro Spanu, Antonio Di Pietro, and Richard P. Oliver

4. Genetics of plant disease and resistance
Ralph Huckelhoven and Klaus Pillen

5. Plant immunity and plant defense
Ralph Huckelhoven and Alexander Schouten

6. Plant disease quantification
Emerson M. Del Ponte, Anne-Katrin Mahlein, and Clive H. Bock

7. Epidemics: Disease in populations
Emerson M. Del Ponte and Eduardo S.G. Mizubuti

8. Plant disease warning systems
David H. Gent and Emerson M. Del Ponte

9. Environmental changes and plant disease epidemics
B.D.L. Fitt, A. Qi, and B. Richard

10. Control of plant diseases
Richard P. Oliver

11. Postharvest diseases
Wayne M. Jurick, II and James E.Adaskaveg

12. Classification of phytopathogens and diseases
Richard P. Oliver

13. Diseases caused by fungi
Richard P. Oliver

14. Diseases caused by Plasmodiophorida
Richard P. Oliver

15. Diseases caused by Oomycetes
Francine Govers

16. Plant diseases caused by prokaryotes: Bacteria and mollicutes
Gitte Erbs and Mari-Anne Newman

17. Plant diseases caused by viruses
Edward P. Rybicki and Gary D. Foster

18. Plant diseases caused by nematodes
Catherine J. Lilley, Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, and Sebastian Eves-van den Akker

19. Plant diseases caused by parasitic higher plants
David N. Appel

20. Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system for understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms of plant immunity
Roger Innes

21. Banana
Gert H.J. Kema

22. Barley
Robert S. Brueggeman

23. Canola
Angela P. Van de Wouw and Barbara J. Howlett

24. Citrus
Renato Beozzo Bassanezi

25. Cool-season grain legumes
Weidong Chen and Lyndon Porter

26. The grape crop
Francisco J. Lopez-Ruiz

27. Forest trees
Richard C. Hamelin

28. Diseases of plantation forest trees in the tropics and Southern Hemisphere
Irene Barnes and Michael J. Wingfield

29. Cannabis
Janna Beckerman

30. Diseases of maize/corn
Dave K. Berger

31. Ornamental plants
Janna Beckerman

32. Other model hosts: Medicago truncatula, Brachypodium distachyon, and Nicotiana benthamiana
Richard P. Oliver

33. Potato
Vivianne G.A.A. Vleeshouwers and Evert Jacobsen

34. Rice
Daniel Ebbole

35. The soybean crop
Anne E. Dorrance

36. Sorghum
Hillary L. Mehl

37. Sugar beet
Chenggen Chu, Kevin M. Dorn, and Melvin D. Bolton

38. The tomato crop
Pierre J.G.M. de Wit

39. Temperate fruit production: Pome, stone fruit, and berry crops
Janna Beckerman

40. Diseases of major tropical and subtropical fruit plants
Nimal Adikaram

41. Turfgrass diseases
Gerald (Lee) Miller, Jr

42. The wheat crop
Richard P. Oliver

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 30, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Richard Oliver

Richard Oliver is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Chief Scientist at the Centre for Crop Disease Management at Curtin University, Australia. Amongst other honors, Dr Oliver is an Honorary Fellow of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) and Honorary Professor at Exeter and Nottingham Universities. He is also a past President of the British Society for Plant Pathology. Recently, Curtin and the GRDC have established a bilateral research program called the Centre for Crop Disease Management. This is a 5-year program initially with total funding of $96m. Dr Oliver is the Centre Chief Scientist, reporting to the Board with a brief to oversee the science/research programs and projects, develop new research proposals, monitor research quality and to build and maintain international research linkages. His primary role is to build and manage overseas collaborations and so works closely with research institutes in the UK, Europe and USA.
Affiliations and expertise
John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Chief Scientist, Centre for Crop Disease Management, Curtin University, Australia

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