Plant Disease: An Advanced Treatise
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Plant Disease: An Advanced Treatise

How Plants Suffer from Disease

  1. 508 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Plant Disease: An Advanced Treatise

How Plants Suffer from Disease

About this book

Plant Diseases An Advanced Treatise, Volume III: How Plants Suffer from Disease deals with the mechanism on how individual plants suffer from disease. Organized into 19 chapters, this volume discusses plant growth, the conceptual theory of disease development in plants, and the occurrence of different kinds of impairment in diseased plant system. The opening chapters outline the array of physiological functions that are essential in the growth and development of healthy plants. This text also describes the effect of disease on the capture, transfer, and utilization of energy by plants. The subsequent chapters discuss specific types of dysfunction in plant system, including food flow, water system, mineral nutrition, and growth alteration. Other chapters deal with other plant diseases, such as crown gall, teratoma, dysfunction and shortfalls of symbiont responses, disrupted reproduction, and tissue disintegration. This volume also examines various physical factors of the environment that impose mechanical or other physical stresses on plants. It also discusses the engineering mechanics of growing plants and the effect of various pathogens and microorganisms on plant strength and plant organ structural integrity. Other chapters deal with the effect of disease on cell membrane and permeability and on intermediary plant metabolism. The concluding chapters cover the genetic aspects of diseased plants and the diseases that induce senescence and diseases that senescence induced. This volume is an invaluable source for plant pathologists and researchers, mycologists, virologists, and graduate students.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. How Plants Suffer from Disease
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Contents of Other Volumes
  9. Tentative Contents of Other Volumes
  10. CHAPTER 1. PROLOGUE: HOW PLANTS SUFFER FROM DISEASE
  11. CHAPTER 2. HOW HEALTHY PLANTS GROW
  12. CHAPTER 3. THE DYNAMIC NATURE OF DISEASE
  13. CHAPTER 4. THE CAPTURE AND USE OF ENERGY BY DISEASED PLANTS
  14. CHAPTER 5. DYSFUNCTION IN THE FLOW OF FOOD
  15. CHAPTER 6. DYSFUNCTION OF THE WATER SYSTEM
  16. CHAPTER 7. DISTURBED MINERAL NUTRITION
  17. CHAPTER 8. ALTERATION OF GROWTH BY DISEASE
  18. CHAPTER 9. CROWN GALL—A UNIQUE DISEASE
  19. CHAPTER 10. PLANT TERATOMAS—WHO'S IN CONTROL OF THEM?
  20. CHAPTER 11. DYSFUNCTION AND SHORTFALLS IN SYMBIOTIC RESPONSES
  21. CHAPTER 12. DISRUPTED REPRODUCTION
  22. CHAPTER 13. TISSUE IS DISINTEGRATED
  23. CHAPTER 14. THE ENGINEERING MECHANICS OF PATHOGENESIS
  24. CHAPTER 15. DISEASE ALTERATIONS IN PERMEABILITY AND MEMBRANES
  25. CHAPTER 16. CHANGES IN INTERMEDIARY METABOLISM CAUSED BY DISEASE
  26. CHAPTER 17. TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION IN DISEASED PLANTS
  27. CHAPTER 18. SENESCENCE AND PLANT DISEASE
  28. CHAPTER 19. RELATION BETWEEN BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS AND DISEASE
  29. Author Index
  30. Subject Index