Plant Pathology

1. Introduction 2. History of Plant Pathology 3. Pathogenesis 4. Enzymes and Toxins in Plant Diseases 5. Alteration in Plant Physiological Functions Due to Plant Pathogen Interaction 6. How Plants Defend Themselves Against Infection 7. Genetics of Plant Pathogen Interaction 8. Effect of Environmental Factors and Nutrition on Disease Development 9. Survival and Dispersal of Plant Pathogens 10. Plant Disease Epidemiology and Plant Disease Forecasting 11. Management of Plant Diseases 12. Plant Diseases Caused By Fungi—Characteristics and Classification of Plant Pathogenic Fungi 13. Rots, Damping Offs, Downy Mildews and White Rusts Rots, Damping Offs, Downy Mildews and White Rusts 14. Powdery Mildews 15. Smuts and Bunts 16. Rusts 17. Wilts, Root Rots and Head Blight 18. Leaf Spots, Leaf Blights and Anthracnose 19. Galls and Abnormal Growths 20. Post-Harvest Diseases of Fruits, Vegetables and Post-Harvest Decay of Grains and Legumes 21. Root Diseases 22. Seed-Borne Diseases 23. Plant Diseases Caused by Mollicutes: Phytoplasmas and Spiro plasmas 24. Bacteria and Bacterial Diseases 25. Viruses, Viroid’s and Their Diseases 26. Diseases Caused by Nematodes and Flagellates 27. Diseases Due to Angiosperm Parasites 28. Non–Infectious or Abiotic Diseases 29. Application of Biotechnology in Plant Pathology 30. Phyto pathological Techniques in Plant Pathology