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Plant Pathology
Also Known As Phytopathology
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The science of plant disease: what pathogens, fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes and others, do to crops, how they spread, and how growers detect, resist and treat them. The discipline that turned crop failure from an act of God into a diagnosable, often preventable, event.
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Central QuestionPlant pathology is the scientific study of diseases caused by pathogens and environmental conditions in plants, and of how those diseases can be diagnosed, understood and managed. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The potato late blight behind the Irish famine, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, is one of the founding cases that shaped the discipline.
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