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

How Plants Defend Themselves

  1. 556 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Plant Disease: An Advanced Treatise

How Plants Defend Themselves

About this book

Plant Disease An Advanced Treatise, Volume V: How Plants Defend Themselves describes the active, passive, physical, chemical, mechanical, and physiological defense systems of plants against the pathogens. Divided into 23 chapters, this volume discusses theories, experimental approaches, and ways to help plant defend themselves. The opening chapters of this volume deal with certain general aspects of plant defense, such as the theories of "tolerance to disease and "the time sequence of defense, including a dynamic model of defense. A chapter discusses how plant populations defend themselves in natural ecosystem and the implications of disease management on agroecosystems. Considerable chapters examine the defense by the host by analogy with defense of a medieval castle, such as perimeter, internal, and chemical defenses. Discussions on the defenses triggered by the invading pathogen; recognition and compatibility phenomena; the concept of hypersensitivity; the role of phytoalexins in defense; and the metabolic detoxification done by plants to suffer less damage from toxins are provided. This volume also discusses the theory and mechanisms of hypovirulence and hyperparasitism. The concluding chapters summarize the effects of numerous nutrients on disease and the mechanisms involved. This volume is an invaluable source for plant pathologists, mycologists, advanced researches, and graduate students.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Plant Disease: How Plants Defend Themselves
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Contents of Other Volumes
  8. CHAPTER 1. PROLOGUE: HOW PLANTS DEFEND THEMSELVES
  9. CHAPTER 2. ESCAPE FROM DISEASE
  10. CHAPTER 3. TOLERANCE TO DISEASE
  11. CHAPTER 4. THE TIME SEQUENCE OF DEFENSE
  12. CHAPTER 5. HOW PLANT POPULATIONS DEFEND THEMSELVES IN NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS
  13. CHAPTER 6. DEFENSE AT THE PERIMETER: THE OUTER WALLS AND THE GATES
  14. CHAPTER 7. DEFENSE AT THE PERIMETER: EXTRUDED CHEMICALS
  15. CHAPTER 8. PREFORMED INTERNAL PHYSICAL DEFENSES
  16. CHAPTER 9. PREFORMED INTERNAL CHEMICAL DEFENSES
  17. CHAPTER 10. DEFENSES TRIGGERED BY THE INVADER: RECOGNITION AND COMPATIBILITY PHENOMENA
  18. CHAPTER 11. DEFENSES TRIGGERED BY THE INVADER: HYPERSENSITIVITY
  19. CHAPTER 12. DEFENSES TRIGGERED BY THE INVADER: PHYSICAL DEFENSES
  20. CHAPTER 13. DEFENSES TRIGGERED BY THE INVADER: CHEMICAL DEFENSES
  21. CHAPTER 14. DEFENSES TRIGGERED BY THE INVADER: DETOXIFYING THE TOXINS
  22. CHAPTER 15. DEFENSES TRIGGERED BY PREVIOUS INVADERS: VIRUSES
  23. CHAPTER 16. DEFENSES TRIGGERED BY PREVIOUS INVADERS: BACTERIA
  24. CHAPTER 17. DEFENSES TRIGGERED BY PREVIOUS INVADERS: FUNGI
  25. CHAPTER 18. DEFENSES TRIGGERED BY PREVIOUS INVADERS: NEMATODES AND INSECTS
  26. CHAPTER 19. DEFENSES TRIGGERED BY PREVIOUS DIVERSE INVADERS
  27. CHAPTER 20. HYPOVIRULENCE AND HYPERPARASITISM
  28. CHAPTER 21. THE ROLE OF MINERAL NUTRITION IN DEFENSE
  29. CHAPTER 22. ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES TO DEFENSE AND REPAIR
  30. CHAPTER 23. EPILOGUE: ANENT A PHILOSOPHY OF PLANT PATHOLOGY
  31. Author Index
  32. Subject Index
  33. Cumulative Index of Major Concepts, Volumes I–V
  34. Cumulative Index of Major Principles, Volumes I–V