By Arturo Casadevall and Ferric C. Fang This book is a roadmap to understanding and improving the scientific endeavor for the benefit of society at large. |
Edited by Clayton A. Hollier, G. Boyd Padgett, and Martin A. Draper This book covers diseases of 22 major field crops in one comprehensive volume. |
Edited by James E. Adaskaveg, Helga Förster, and Dov B. Prusky This book is the most complete guide to postharvest diseases ever published. This new book provides current reports of postharvest diseases of fruit and nut crops around the world. |
By José Tadashi Yorinori / Edited by Glen L. Hartman, Maurício C. Meyer, Ademir A. Henning, and Cláudia V. Godoy Highlights critical advances from the research of the late Dr. José Tadashi Yorinori, who developed educational and control methods for this devastating disease. |
Edited by Damon Smith, Kiersten Wise, Anna Freije, Adam Sisson, Albert Tenuta, Andrew Friskop, Emmanuel Byamukama, Juliet M. Marshall, Mary Burrows, and Daren Mueller This is the first comprehensive overview of wheat diseases written for farmers. |
By R. James Cook A compelling collection of stories filled with practical crop management information gleaned from Dr. Jim Cook's 40 years of research on root diseases of wheat. |
By Robert M. Harveson A fascinating collection of colorful stories chronicling plant pathogen and disease discoveries, as well as the foundational lessons plant pathologists learned while researching them. |
By Frank Dugan Hidden Histories and Ancient Mysteries of Witches, Plants, and Fungi traces the evolution of plant lore and crop protection from the ancient beginnings of agriculture, through human civilization's advances. |
By Gail L. Schumann and Cleora J. D’Arcy Read stories of plant disease epidemics that illustrate the past and present vulnerability of some important plants that people use for food, for fibers and oils, and for green spaces. |
Edited by Paul D. Peterson, Clay S. Griffith, and R. Steven Turner John Niederhauser is remembered and honored in this autobiographical memoir as one of the most important agricultural scientists of the last century. |
By Frank M. Dugan This book surveys the folk usage of fungi worldwide from the perspective of a specialist in germplasm conservation and research. |
By Frank Matthews Dugan This well documented book presents reproductions and descriptions of fungal motifs in ancient art, myth, and folklore that enable direct examination of evidence by any reader, professional or lay. |
Edited by Jean Beagle Ristaino Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology is a biographical book on the early women scientists who led the way for others in the field of plant pathology. These untold stories about 27 fascinating women discuss their struggles and triumphs as early women in the science. |
By Peter G Ayres A fascinating biography that reflects the changes that occurred in both society and plant science in the late 19th century. |
Edited by Eugene Nester, Milton P. Gordon, and Allen Kerr This anthology traces the fascinating progress from plant pathology to biotechnology through 38 scientific papers on Agrobacterium, published over the past century. |
Edited by Clay S. Griffith, Turner B. Sutton, and Paul D. Peterson Fire Blight: The Foundation of Phytobacteriology tells the story of the exciting first decades of fire blight research. |
By E. C. Large Originally published in 1940 and now back by popular demand, this book will spark interest in budding plant pathologists, revitalize experienced plant pathologists, and captivate the general public. |
Edited by Paul D. Peterson Takes a historical look at the significance of major aspects of research on stem rust of wheat in the 20th Century. |
By Darin M. Eastburn, Cleora J. D’Arcy, and Lisa A. McKee This educational video is perfect to supplement classes teaching the biology of Dutch elm disease, a major epidemic in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s that is still killing thousands of American elms today. |
By C. Lee Campbell, Paul D. Peterson, and Clay S. Griffith Describes more completely than ever before, the history of where and how the scientific interest in plant disease arose and was developed. |
Edited by Karen-Beth G. Scholthof, John G. Shaw, and Milton Zaitlin Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of virology, it is an anthology of this past century's classic papers written about tobacco mosaic virus and its impact in the field of virology and related studies. |
By Richard M. Sayre This book is a retrospective of the career of Nathan A. Cobb, pioneer phytopathologist, who lived from 1859-1932. It showcases his drawings, which gave added form and direction to nematology in the United States. |
By Gail L. Schumann This textbook teaches basic plant and microbial biology while explaining phytopathology and its cultural relevance. |
Translated and Prepared by Francis W. Holmes and Hans M. Heybroek This book presents an often overlooked fact: that the pioneering research on Dutch elm disease was done by women scientists. These women studied and recorded the earliest information on this disease. |
By Hirotaro Ando, Teikichi Fukushi, and Harold Haydon Storey |
By C. M. Christensen Chronicles many important events in plant pathology, including Stakman's pioneering studies on the nature of genetic variation of the stem rust pathogen Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici and the epidemiology of wheat stem rust. |
By Alfred Fischer and Erwin F. Smith This controversy has been hailed by some as a clash in which an infant American Plant Pathology rose up against the seasoned German Plant Pathology to prove that bacteria do, indeed, cause plant diseases. |
By Robert Hartig The first series of Dr. Hartig's pathological works. |
By C. W. Bennett This monograph is organized into sections on these main topics pertaining to curly top disease: history and geographic distribution, host range, symptoms, economic importance, transmission, causal agent, and relationship of the virus to host plants. |
By Anton de Bary The first translation of Anton de Bary's "Untersuchungen über die Brandpilze", this book brings together convincing evidence that fungi are the causes of plant diseases and not the results. |
By Agostino Bassi In this 1835 book (translated from Italian), Agostino Bassi presents findings from his 25-year investigation of the silkworm disease muscardine and demonstrates that the disease is contagious and caused by a microscopic, parasitic fungus. A biography of Bassi is provided, as well. |
By Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti This essay covers parasitic diseases of plants, and is considered to be the first treatise on plant pathology. |
By Miles Joseph Berkeley In this classic paper, M.J. Berkeley studies the disease which affected potatoes during the fall of 1845 and vegetable pathology. |
By Adolf Mayer, Dmitrii Ivanowski, Martinus W. Beijerinck, and Erwin Baur Features four significant papers selected to represent the historical background of plant pathology. These papers individually and collectively have made a profound and lasting influence on subsequent virus research and reasoning. |
By Bénédict Prévost This title establishes fundamental scientific ideas and lays the foundation for the theory of germ disease. It is recognized as one of the most significant works in the field of biology. |
By Mathieu Tillet This dissertation covers M. Mathieu du Tillet's use of experimental methods to solve problems in agronomy and improve farm practices. |
By Michael Stephanovitch Woronin This book is a translation of Michaell Woronin's paper on the cause and methods for control of club root. This widespread disease caused severe losses to the vegetable gardens of Russia during Woronin's lifetime. |
By Pierre M. A. Millardet Covers the discovery and development of the Bordeaux mixture by Pierre Marie Alexis Millardet. This discovery was significant in the history of plant pathogen control. |
By Felice Fontana This book documents one of the earliest contributions to the true causal nature of the stem rust of wheat. |
By Johann C. Fabricius Johann C. Fabricius' keen observations of science and economics makes this book an essential contribution to the early development of phytopathology. |