Plant Pathologist’s Pocketbook

This essential handbook for advanced student and practising plant pathologists has been thoroughly reorganised and updated since publication of the second edition. New features include the rearrangement of topics to facilitate use, and 44 short succinct chapters, each providing valuable and practical information. There are several new chapter topics and five overall sections covering disease recognition and evaluation, causation, diagnosis and investigation as well as disease management and general techniques and information.New topics also include disease forecasting, biochemical and molecular techniques, and electronic databases. Sections cover plant pathologists’ major activity areas: disease recognition and evaluation, causes, diagnosis/investigation, management, and general techniques and information. Includes a chronology of landmarks in plant pathology, bibliography of crop and plant diseases, glossary, and international resources. Includes a few illustrations. This is a book no practising plant pathologist can afford to be without.