Title: Plant diseases :
Authors: Schumann, Gail L.; American Phytopathological Society.
Date: 1991
Publisher: APS Press, American Phytopathological Society,
Physical description: viii, 397 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: S
Contents: Irish potato famine and the birth of plant pathology -- Introduction to the fungi and their life cycles -- Pathogens and quarantines -- Bacteria -- Genes and genetic engineering -- Plant disease epidemics and their management -- Pesticides -- Soil, the rhizosphere, and soilborne pathogens -- Fungi in food: natural poisons and gourmet delicacies -- Rusts -- Dying trees and parasitic plants -- Viruses and more recently discovered pathogens -- Environmental diseases and problems -- Plant diseases in a hungry world.
Subject headings (LCSH): Phytopathogenic microorganisms.; Plant diseases--Social aspects.; Plant diseases.; Plant genetics.