The book deals with the important diseases of plants caused by various agents and elaborates various aspects of disease causation and principles and procedures of control of plant diseases. The significance of plant diseases in agricultural is now well understood and in the preparation of this book. The author has provided, rather comprehensive account of better known representative diseases which may serve as a guide to the general principles underlying the ...
This book is designed particularly for the use of students and instructors whose practical interest in the subject is a desire to know how to recognize, understand, and prevent plant diseases, and to whom the elementary course in plant pathology is a necessary part of the background for useful work in agriculture. Some knowledge of the principles underlying the science of plant pathology is indispensable for an understanding of the behaviour of plant pathogens ...