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Thinking about Science: Good Science, Bad Science, and How to Make It Better

Thinking about Science: Good Science, Bad Science, and How to Make It Better

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.

Diseases of Field Crops

Diseases of Field Crops

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.

Postharvest Pathology of Fruit and Nut Crops:<br> Principles, Concepts, and Management Practices

Postharvest Pathology of Fruit and Nut Crops:
Principles, Concepts, and Management Practices

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.

Soybean Rust: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic in Brazil

Soybean Rust: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic in Brazil

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.

A Farmer's Guide to Wheat Diseases

A Farmer's Guide to Wheat Diseases

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.

Untold Stories: Forty Years of Field Research on Root Diseases of Wheat

Untold Stories: Forty Years of Field Research on Root Diseases of Wheat

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.

The Bacterium of Many Colors

The Bacterium of Many Colors

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.

Hidden Histories and Ancient Mysteries of Witches, Plants, and Fungi

Hidden Histories and Ancient Mysteries of Witches, Plants, and Fungi

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.

Hungry Planet: Stories of Plant Diseases

Hungry Planet: Stories of Plant Diseases

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.

John S. Niederhauser: Recollections of a Life in Science and Agriculture

John S. Niederhauser: Recollections of a Life in Science and Agriculture

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.

Conspectus of World Ethnomycology: Fungi in Ceremonies, Crafts, Diets, Medicines, and Myths

Conspectus of World Ethnomycology: Fungi in Ceremonies, Crafts, Diets, Medicines, and Myths

By Frank M. Dugan

This book surveys the folk usage of fungi worldwide from the perspective of a specialist in germplasm conservation and research.

Fungi in the Ancient World: How Mushrooms, Mildews, Molds, and Yeast Shaped the Early Civilizations of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East

Fungi in the Ancient World: How Mushrooms, Mildews, Molds, and Yeast Shaped the Early Civilizations of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East

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.

Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology

Pioneering Women in Plant Pathology

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.

Harry Marshall Ward and the Fungal Thread of Death

Harry Marshall Ward and the Fungal Thread of Death

By Peter G Ayres

A fascinating biography that reflects the changes that occurred in both society and plant science in the late 19th century.

<em>Agrobacterium tumefaciens</em>: From Plant Pathology to Biotechnology

Agrobacterium tumefaciens: From Plant Pathology to Biotechnology

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.

Fire Blight: The Foundation of Phytobacteriology

Fire Blight: The Foundation of Phytobacteriology

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.

The Advance of the Fungi

The Advance of the Fungi

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.

Stem Rust of Wheat: From Ancient Enemy to Modern Foe

Stem Rust of Wheat: From Ancient Enemy to Modern Foe

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.

Dutch Elm Disease and the American Elm DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Dutch Elm Disease and the American Elm DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

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.

The Formative Years of Plant Pathology in the United States

The Formative Years of Plant Pathology in the United States

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.

Tobacco Mosaic Virus: One Hundred Years of Contributions to Virology

Tobacco Mosaic Virus: One Hundred Years of Contributions to Virology

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.

Art in Phytopathology: Portfolio of Nathan A. Cobb, Nematologist

Art in Phytopathology: Portfolio of Nathan A. Cobb, Nematologist

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.

Plant Diseases: Their Biology and Social Impact

Plant Diseases: Their Biology and Social Impact

By Gail L. Schumann

This textbook teaches basic plant and microbial biology while explaining phytopathology and its cultural relevance.

Dutch Elm Disease - The Early Papers: Selected Works of Seven Dutch Women Phytopathologists

Dutch Elm Disease - The Early Papers: Selected Works of Seven Dutch Women Phytopathologists

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.

Viruses in Vectors: Transovarial Passage and Retention

Viruses in Vectors: Transovarial Passage and Retention

By Hirotaro Ando, Teikichi Fukushi, and Harold Haydon Storey

E. C. Stakman, Statesman of Science

E. C. Stakman, Statesman of Science

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.

The Fischer-Smith Controversy: Are There Bacterial Diseases of Plants?

The Fischer-Smith Controversy: Are There Bacterial Diseases of Plants?

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.

Important Diseases of Forest Trees: Contributions to Mycology and Phytopathology for Botanists and Foresters

Important Diseases of Forest Trees: Contributions to Mycology and Phytopathology for Botanists and Foresters

By Robert Hartig

The first series of Dr. Hartig's pathological works.

The Curly Top Disease of Sugarbeet and Other Plants, Monograph No. 7

The Curly Top Disease of Sugarbeet and Other Plants, Monograph No. 7

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.

Investigations of the Brand Fungi and the Diseases of Plants Caused by Them with Reference to Grain and Other Useful Plants

Investigations of the Brand Fungi and the Diseases of Plants Caused by Them with Reference to Grain and Other Useful 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.

Del Mal Del Segno

Del Mal Del Segno

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.

True Nature, Causes and Sad Effects of the Rust, the Bunt, the Smut, and other Maladies of Wheat, and of Oats in the Field

True Nature, Causes and Sad Effects of the Rust, the Bunt, the Smut, and other Maladies of Wheat, and of Oats in the Field

By Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti

This essay covers parasitic diseases of plants, and is considered to be the first treatise on plant pathology.

Observations, Botanical and Physiological, on the Potato Murrain

Observations, Botanical and Physiological, on the Potato Murrain

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.

Early Papers on Tobacco Mosaic and Infectious Variegation

Early Papers on Tobacco Mosaic and Infectious Variegation

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.

Memoir on the Immediate Cause of Bunt or Smut of Wheat, and Several Other Diseases of Plants, and on the Preventatives of Bunt

Memoir on the Immediate Cause of Bunt or Smut of Wheat, and Several Other Diseases of Plants, and on the Preventatives of Bunt

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.

Dissertation on the Cause of the Corruption and Smutting of the Kernels of Wheat in the Head and on the Means of Preventing These Untoward Circumstances

Dissertation on the Cause of the Corruption and Smutting of the Kernels of Wheat in the Head and on the Means of Preventing These Untoward Circumstances

By Mathieu Tillet

This dissertation covers M. Mathieu du Tillet's use of experimental methods to solve problems in agronomy and improve farm practices.

Plasmodiophora Brassicae - The Cause of the Cabbage Hernia

Plasmodiophora Brassicae - The Cause of the Cabbage Hernia

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.

Discovery of Bordeaux Mixture

Discovery of Bordeaux Mixture

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.

Observations on the Rust of Grain

Observations on the Rust of Grain

By Felice Fontana

This book documents one of the earliest contributions to the true causal nature of the stem rust of wheat.

Attempt at a Dissertation on the Diseases of Plants

Attempt at a Dissertation on the Diseases of Plants

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.