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CONCEPTS
OF PLANT
DISEASE:
A. Concepts of Plant Disease
A) Whetzel (1929), “physiological malfunctioning
caused by animate agents.
B) Stakman and Harrar (1957) as“any deviation from
normal growth or structure of plants that is sufficiently
pronounced and permanent to produce visible symptoms or
to impair quality or economic value.
C)Horsfall and Dimond (1959) states that disease is
“a malfunctioning process caused by continuous irritation”.
D.Merril (1980) defines disease as “a dynamic
interaction between an organism and its environment which
results in abnormal physiological and often morphological
or neurological changes in the organism”.
E) Agrios (1998) defined disease as “any
malfunctioning of host cells and tissues that results from
continuous irritation by a pathogen or an environmental
factor and leads to the development of symptoms.
The salient point in most of the definition of disease
are:
(a) the presence of physiological disorders that
are generally detrimental
(b) morphological abnormalities result from the
physiological malfunctioning.
Blight
Blotch
Blast
Canker Chlorosis
Etiolation
Mummification
Phyllody
Sarcody
Scab
Virescence/greening
Wilting