Root Diseases and Soil Borne Pathogens

Description

Pathogens are parasitic; that is, they depend on a host to survive and reproduce. Soil borne pathogens include fungi, bacteria and nematodes. Soil borne pathogens prefer to live within the soil, causing root disease. These creatures will not only harm a plant, they can even affect the soil itself. They cause severe diseases in many crops. They have common features based on their close connection with the soil, which has a strong influence on their survival and capacity to cause disease. This book discusses the significance of fungi infecting the roots, and emphasizes the significant diseases of roots and their symptoms. It also describes the behavior of various plant pathogenic bacteria. In addition, this book discusses the morphology, classification, nomenclature, multiplication and translocation of various pathogens infecting the plants. The book explains the fundamentals of biological control, which include the pathosystem concept, the behavior of the soil microflora in the soil, the reservoirs for infection, the processes of pathogen decline, and the integrated effects on the decline of the pathogen. This book will be of great value to soil microbiologists and plant pathologists. This book will undoubtedly be widely read, routinely consulted and provides basic concepts and treatments of common diseases of plants.