Agrios' Plant Pathology

About this book

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 recognise, 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 takes a deep dive into the genetics and modern management of several plant species.

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

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Biography

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 honours, 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 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 the USA.