The Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Disease

Gregory S. Gilbert is Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, USA. He is a plant pathologist and forest ecologist, and his research interests include the dynamics of plant and fungal communities, as well as the application of evolutionary ecology to environmental problem solving. He is the Director of the UCSC Forest Ecology Research Plot, and is a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.Ingrid M. Parker is Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, USA. She is a plant evolutionary ecologist, and her research interests include plant disease ecology, the invasion of non-native species, the evolution of domestication, ecological restoration, and plant conservation. She is a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.

• PrefacePart 1: Plant Pathogens and Disease1: Thinking like a plant disease ecologist2: How to be a plant3: How to be a fungus4: How to be an oomycete5: How to be a bacterium6: How to be a virus7: How to be a macroparasite8: Types of diseases9: How to do disease ecologyPart 2: Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Pathogen Symbioses10: The population ecology of plant disease11: Spatial ecology12: Physiology and genetics13: Evolution14: Community ecology15: The plant microbiome16: Global change17: Disease managementEpilogue

This is a true learning tool. I can't wait to use it in introductory plant pathology courses and to share it with the public when they say, "You're a what? Plant pathologist?"