Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Fundamental principles of plant pathology for agricultural producers. 3. Determinants of pathogenicity and avirulence in plant pathogenic bacteria. 4. Plant pathogens as indicators of climate change. 5. Biological control of plant pathogens. 6. Evolutionary ecology of plant diseases in naural ecosystems. 7. Bacterial plant pathogens and symptomology. 8. Chemical control of nematodes: efficiency and side effects. 9. Quarantine strategies in view of onslaught of diseases and insect pests. 10. The disease triangle: a plant pathological paradigm revisited. 11. Plant disease management for commercial vegetable crops. 12. Advances in plant disease and pest management. Bibliography. Index.

Plant diseases in the landscape and garden are very important and can be a significant source of frustration and loss to the gardener. There are about 30, 000 diseases of economic importance in the U.S. Plant pathology is the study of the biotic and abiotic agents that cause disease in plants, of the mechanisms by which these causal agents induce disease in pants and of the methods of preventing or controlling disease and reducing the damage cause. Plant diseases in the landscape and garden are very important and can be a significant source of frustration and loss to the gardener. (jacket)