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CHAPTER 1: What Is Wrong with My Plant? -- How do we diagnose plant diseases? -- What is the plant disease triangle? -- How do we know what organism causes a disease? -- What are biotrophs and necrotrophs? -- What are disease cycles and how can we use them? -- CHAPTER 2: What Are the Causes of Plant Diseases? -- Fungi -- What are fungi? -- What symptoms and signs do fungi cause? -- How do fungi survive and spread? -- How are fungal diseases diagnosed? -- How are fungal diseases managed? -- More detailed information about fungi, their reproduction, and fruiting bodies -- CHAPTER 3: What Are the Causes of Plant Diseases? -- Bacteria -- What are bacteria? -- What symptoms and signs do bacteria cause? -- How do bacteria survive and spread? -- How are bacterial diseases diagnosed? -- How are bacterial diseases managed? -- CHAPTER 4: What Are the Causes of Plant Diseases? -- Nematodes -- What are nematodes? -- What symptoms and signs do nematodes cause? -- How do nematodes survive and spread? -- How are nematode diseases diagnosed? -- How are nematode diseases managed? -- CHAPTER 5: What Are the Causes of Plant Diseases? -- Viruses -- What are viruses? -- What symptoms and signs do viruses cause? -- How do viruses survive and spread? -- How are virus diseases diagnosed? -- How are virus diseases managed? -- CHAPTER 6: What Are the Causes of Plant Diseases? -- Parasitic Flowering Plants -- What are parasitic flowering plants? -- What symptoms and signs do parasitic flowering plants cause? -- How do parasitic flowering plants survive and spread? -- How are diseases caused by parasitic flowering plants diagnosed? -- How are parasitic flowering plants managed? -- CHAPTER 7: What Are the Causes of Plant Diseases? -- Abiotic Factors -- What are abiotic factors? -- What symptoms do abiotic factors cause? -- How are abiotic diseases diagnosed? -- How are abiotic diseases managed? -- CHAPTER 8: What Types of Plant Diseases Are There? -- What is damping-off? -- What diseases commonly affect foliage, flowers, and fruit? -- What are vascular diseases? -- What are cankers? -- What are galls? -- What are root rots? -- What is wood decay?
What are postharvest diseases? -- CHAPTER 9: How Do Plants Interact with Pathogens? -- Part A. Ecological interactions -- How do pathogens survive in the absence of host plants? -- How do pathogens find plants? -- How do pathogens penetrate plants? -- Part B. Physiological interactions -- How do pathogens establish infections? -- How do plants defend themselves? -- Part C. Genetic interactions -- What are the genetic interactions between plants and pathogens? -- How can we create disease-resistant plants? -- CHAPTER 10: How Do People Influence Plant Disease Epidemics? -- What is an epidemic?
Can we predict plant diseases? -- How do people affect the susceptibility of plants to disease? -- How do people affect the environment of plants in ways that increase disease? -- How do people affect the ability of pathogens to cause disease?
How do plant disease epidemics affect people? -- CHAPTER 11: How Can We Prevent or Manage Plant Disease Epidemics? -- How do we choose the appropriate methods for disease management? -- How do we avoid pathogens? -- How do we exclude pathogens? -- How do we eradicate pathogens? -- How do we protect plants? -- How can we create integrated, sustainable management programs? -- APPENDIX 1: Disease Classics -- APPENDIX 2: Example Diseases -- APPENDIX 3: Rapid Assays for Pathogens.

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