Plant Pathology: Do you have an idea of what it means? Well, Pathology is the medical specialty concerned with the study of the nature and causes of diseases. It underpins every aspect of medicine, from diagnostic testing and monitoring of chronic diseases to cutting-edge genetic research and blood transfusion technologies. Plant pathology is the science that studies the causes of plant diseases, the mechanisms by which diseases develop in individual plants and plant populations, and the ways and means by which plant diseases can be managed or controlled. Heinrich Anton de Bary is considered a founding father of plant pathology (phytopathology) as well as the founder of modern mycology. The objectives of Plant Pathology are the study on the living entities that cause diseases in plants; the non-living entities and the environmental conditions that cause disorders in plants; the mechanisms by which the disease-causing agents produce diseases; the interactions between the disease-causing agents and host plant, about the overall environment; and the method of preventing or managing the diseases and reducing the losses/damages caused by diseases.

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