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1882; Lehrbuch der Baumkrankheiten (Textbook of Diseases of Trees), by Robert Hartig, is published in Berlin, the first textbook of forest pathology. [1] 1885; Bordeaux mixture introduced by Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet to control downy mildew on grape [1]
In 1946 Gaumann published PJlanzliche In Jektionslehre, the first modern book on plant pathology. [1] Other works that were well-received included his 1952 The Fungi–A Description of their Morphological Features and Evolutionary Development and his 1959 monograph Die Rostpilze Mitteleuropas (Rust Fungi of Middle Europe).
[2] [3] During his twenty years in India, he began large scale surveys on fungi and plant pathology and published the landmark book Fungi and Disease in Plants: An Introduction to the Diseases of Field and Plantation Crops, especially those of India and the East (1918) [4] and has been called the Father of Mycology and Plant Pathology in India.
Plant pathology or phytopathology is the scientific study of plant diseases caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). [1]
Stephen Denis Garrett [a] FRS (1 November 1906 – 26 December 1989) was a British plant pathologist and mycologist who did pioneering work on soil-borne pathogens, root pathology and soil ecology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was the first to apply ecological concepts to interactions in the soil.
The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is an international scientific organization devoted to the study of plant diseases (phytopathology). APS promotes the advancement of modern concepts in the science of plant pathology and in plant health management in agricultural, urban and forest settings.
A plant pathosystem is one in which the host species is a plant. The parasite is any species in which the individual spends a significant part of its lifespan inhabiting one host individual and obtaining nutrients from it. The parasite may thus be an insect, mite, nematode, parasitic Angiosperm, fungus, bacterium, mycoplasma, virus or viroid ...
Physiological plant pathology, Blackwell Scientific, 1967 Phytotoxins in Plant Diseases, (edited with A. Ballio and A. Graniti) NATO Advanced Study Institute , 1972 Disease in higher plants , Oxford University Press, 1974, ISBN 0-19-914161-4