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Plant Pathology: Disease Causes & Control

This document provides an outline on the topics of crop protection and plant pathology. It discusses the historical development of plant pathology, concepts of plant diseases including terminology, diagnosis and classification. It outlines plant pathogens including non-parasitic and parasitic agents of plant disease. The document also discusses disease cycles, mechanisms of pathogenicity, disease resistance, and principles of plant disease control. It emphasizes the economic importance of plant diseases through examples such as the Irish potato famine and impacts in countries such as the Philippines.

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Plant Pathology: Disease Causes & Control

This document provides an outline on the topics of crop protection and plant pathology. It discusses the historical development of plant pathology, concepts of plant diseases including terminology, diagnosis and classification. It outlines plant pathogens including non-parasitic and parasitic agents of plant disease. The document also discusses disease cycles, mechanisms of pathogenicity, disease resistance, and principles of plant disease control. It emphasizes the economic importance of plant diseases through examples such as the Irish potato famine and impacts in countries such as the Philippines.

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CROP PROTECTION

PLANT PATHOLOGY
OUTLINE:
 Introduction
 Historical Development
 Concepts of Plant Disease; Terminologies;
Diagnosis; Classification
 Plant Pathogens
 Non-parasitic Agents of Plant Disease
 Parasitic Agent of Plant Disease
 Disease Cycle
 Mechanisms of Pathogenicity
 Mechanisms of Disease Resistance
 Principles of Plant Disease Control
 Postharvest Pathology
PLANT PATHOLOGY
PATHOLOGY
 “pathos” = suffering
 “logos” = the study of

DISEASE
 “dis” = ?
 “ease” = ?

…study of factors which cause DISEASES in PLANTS, the


MECHANISMS how these factors induce disease & how to
CONTROL them…
-PHYTOPATHOLOGY-
SCIENCE AND ART OF PLANT PATH.
SCIENCE “Why” or ‘What”
 Characters of disease & causes
 Plant-pathogen interaction
 Mechanisms of disease production
 Control

ART “How”
 Disease diagnosis
 Disease assessment
 Recommendations
 Field application of control measure
ULTIMATE REASON
 Food production – “QUANTITY & QUALITY”
 Reaches on time to consumers
 Protect plants used for ‘fibers, drugs, aesthetics’
ECONOMIC IMP.OF PLT. DISEASES
Suffering and Upheavals:
 Potato late blight disease – Irish Famine
 Coffee rust – Ceylon
 Ergot Poisoning – from infected rye grains
 Famines Africa, Latin America & Asia
 USA = 4.6 Million losses annually due to
diseases
..in the Philippines
 Cadang-cadang disease of coconut – 200 million
dollars
 Downy mildew of corn – 95% losses = P170million;
Metalaxyl treatment
 Tungro disease of rice - 70,000 ha of rice = 1.22
million cavans = Php 30,357,000.00
 Coffee rust & citrus decline disease – Batangas

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