AIE - Book Summary - Plant Disease.

Book Summary

p_d.jpg (25937 bytes) Plant Disease

David Ingram & Noel Robertson

This book describes the various plant diseases that attack plants. It describes with the aid of numerous black & white diagrams how the diseases function, how they attack and establish within the plant cells. Each disease is discussed in depth with a number of references made to trees throughout the book. Additionally one specific chapter (No:11) is aimed specifically at the subject of trees. A number of colour photographs are included.

Chapter 1. Blasting and Mildew. The causes of plant disease.
Chapter 2. Invading the Plant. Strategies of parasitism, the nectrotrophs, the biotrophs, the infection process.
Chapter 3. Resisting Attack. Defence systems, toxins, breaching the barriers.
Chapter 4. The Water Connection. Zoospore fungi, Pythium, meiosis, the travellers, the downy mildews, the white blisters, an underwater world.
Chapter 5. Curls, Scabs, Spots and Rots.
Chapter 6. Wilt. The vascular system, what causes wilt, classic wilt diseases, Fusarium, Verticillium, resistance, wilt organisms in the soil, Dutch Elm Disease,
Chapter 7. A Secret Life. The endophtes, the mycorrhizas.
Chapter 8. Life on the Surface. The Powdery Mildews, fungicides.
Chapter 9. A Treacherous, Mutable Tribe. The Rusts. Crops, life cycles, taxonomy, hormonal disturbance, world travellers.
Chapter 10. The Dark and Sensitive Smuts and Bunts.
Chapter 11. Bringing Down The Trees.
Chapter 12. The Smallest and the Largest Pathogens. Viruses, bacteria, parasitic flowering plants.
Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Index.

Plant Disease. 288 pages. Over 100 Black & white photographs & diagrams. 8 Colour plates. ISBN 0-00-220075-9. Published in 1999 by HarperCollins Publishers.