CROP PROTECTION

PLANT PATHOLOGY
OUTLINE:
 Introduction
 Historical Development
 Concepts of Plant Disease; Terminologies;
Diagnosis; Classification
 Plant Pathogens
 Non-parasitic Agents of Plant Disease
 Parasitic Agent of Plant Disease
 Disease Cycle
 Mechanisms of Pathogenicity
 Mechanisms of Disease Resistance
 Principles of Plant Disease Control
 Postharvest Pathology
PLANT PATHOLOGY
PATHOLOGY
 “pathos” = suffering
 “logos” = the study of

DISEASE
 “dis” = ?
 “ease” = ?

…study of factors which cause DISEASES in PLANTS, the

MECHANISMS how these factors induce disease & how to
CONTROL them…
-PHYTOPATHOLOGY-
SCIENCE AND ART OF PLANT PATH.
SCIENCE “Why” or ‘What”
 Characters of disease & causes
 Plant-pathogen interaction
 Mechanisms of disease production
 Control

ART “How”
 Disease diagnosis
 Disease assessment
 Recommendations
 Field application of control measure
 ULTIMATE REASON
 Food production – “QUANTITY & QUALITY”
 Reaches on time to consumers
 Protect plants used for ‘fibers, drugs, aesthetics’
ECONOMIC IMP.OF PLT. DISEASES
Suffering and Upheavals:
 Potato late blight disease – Irish Famine
 Coffee rust – Ceylon
 Ergot Poisoning – from infected rye grains
 Famines Africa, Latin America & Asia
 USA = 4.6 Million losses annually due to
diseases
..in the Philippines
 Cadang-cadang disease of coconut – 200 million
dollars
 Downy mildew of corn – 95% losses = P170million;
Metalaxyl treatment
 Tungro disease of rice - 70,000 ha of rice = 1.22
million cavans = Php 30,357,000.00
 Coffee rust & citrus decline disease – Batangas