Essential Plant Pathology 2nd Edition by Gail L. Schumann , Cleora J. D’Arcy

Schumann (Marquette U., Wisconsin) and D’Arcy (U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) update their textbook on diseases of plants, revising and augmenting the content . They cover diagnosing and understanding plant diseases, fungi, bacteria, nematodes, viruses, parasite flowering plants, abiotic factors, types of plant diseases, how plants interact with pathogens, how people influence plant disease epidemics, and how to prevent or manage plant disease epidemics. Brilliant color photographs are used throughout. No date is noted for the first edition.