Plant Diseases and their Biological Control

Contents: Preface. 1. Plant disease concepts. 2. Classification of plant diseases. 3. Majority of plant pathology. 4.  Pathogen recognition. 5. Recognising infectious plant diseases. 6. Insecticidal materials and practices. 7. Treatment of injurious insects.  8. Biological control of plant pests. 9. Biological control of plant pathogens. 10. Fungicides and germicides for plant diseases. 11. Insects affected plants and their control. 12. Disease control in the landscape.

"Agriculture is the oldest profession and applied science in the world. Revolutionary changes have taken place in the field of agriculture. The contents of the book are based upon the author\'s long years of  teaching and lecturing to students, working farmers and gardeners and cover  all those botanical areas which led the author to consider essential to a sound working knowledge of the general principles of science and its more immediate application to the crops in the farms.

The chapters are original, and some aspects have been included for the first time in any book on plant disease. We hope that  the information provided in this book will be of immense value to scholars, scientists, agriculturists and enlightened farmers for the biological control of plant diseases."(jacket)