Epidemiology of Plant Diseases

B.M. Cooke is a Professor of Plant Pathology and the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Plant Pathology at the School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. D. Gareth Jones is an Emeritus Research Professor of the Welsh Institute of Rural Studies, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. Bernard Kaye is a multi-media consultant in the School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland.

• Principles and Methods.- Plant disease diagnosis.- Disease assessment and yield loss.- Surveys of variation in virulence and fungicide resistance and their application to disease control.- Infection strategies of plant parasitic fungi.- Epidemiological consequences of plant disease resistance.- Dispersal of foliar plant pathogens: mechanisms, gradients and spatial patterns.- Pathogen population dynamics.- Modelling and interpreting disease progress in time.- Disease forecasting.- Diversification strategies.- Epidemiology in sustainable systems.- Information technology in plant disease epidemiology.- Case Examples.- Seedborne diseases.- Diseases caused by soil-borne pathogens.- Wind-dispersed diseases.- Environmental biophysics applied to the dispersal of fungal spores by rain-splash.- Potato late blight.- Apple scab: role of environment in pathogen and epidemic development.- Onion diseases.- The recent epidemic of cassava mosaic virus disease in Uganda.

From the reviews of the second edition: "This second edition contains updated and new contributed chapters in the same format as the first edition ... . The topics covered understandably have a strong United Kingdom flavour, but several chapters deal with widely applicable principles and are illustrated by examples from several countries. Although plant disease epidemiology relies heavily on quantitative methods, most chapters in this book are written without a strongly mathematical slant, which will make the book attractive to the many students and researchers who are not mathematically inclined." (Rob Beresford, Plant Pathology, 2006)