Plant Pathology

1. Introduction
2. History of Plant Pathology 
3. Pathogenesis 
4. Enzymes and Toxins in Plant Diseases 
5. Alteration in Plant Physiological Functions Due to Plant Pathogen Interaction 
6. How Plants Defend Themselves Against Infection 
7. Genetics of Plant Pathogen Interaction 
8. Effect of Environmental Factors and Nutrition on Disease Development 
9. Survival and Dispersal of Plant Pathogens 
10. Plant Disease Epidemiology and Plant Disease Forecasting 
11. Management of Plant Diseases 
12. Plant Diseases Caused By Fungi—Characteristics and Classification of Plant Pathogenic Fungi 
13. Rots, Damping Offs, Downy Mildews and White Rusts Rots, Damping Offs, Downy Mildews and White Rusts
14. Powdery Mildews 
15. Smuts and Bunts 
16. Rusts 
17. Wilts, Root Rots and Head Blight 
18. Leaf Spots, Leaf Blights and Anthracnose
19. Galls and Abnormal Growths 
20. Post-Harvest Diseases of Fruits, Vegetables and Post-Harvest Decay of Grains and Legumes 
21. Root Diseases 
22. Seed-Borne Diseases
23. Plant Diseases Caused by Mollicutes: Phytoplasmas and Spiro plasmas 
24. Bacteria and Bacterial Diseases 
25. Viruses, Viroid’s and Their Diseases 
26. Diseases Caused by Nematodes and Flagellates 
27. Diseases Due to Angiosperm Parasites 
28. Non–Infectious or Abiotic Diseases 
29. Application of Biotechnology in Plant Pathology 
30. Phyto pathological Techniques in Plant Pathology