This textbook on Principles of Plant Pathology has been designed for undergraduate students. It focuses on all types of plant diseases such as root diseases, seed-borne diseases and post-harvest diseases of fruits and vegetables. It also includes diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, mycoplasmas, nematodes and nonparasitic diseases.

Salient features

• Covers both general and specialized topics like physical, physiological, biochemical and molecular
• aspects of plant pathogens as well as psychopathological techniques and applications of biotechnology.
• Integrates latest information on local plant diseases pertinent to the Indian scenario like apple scab and fusarium head blight of wheat.
• Follows latest classification system for fungi, bacteria and viruses.