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    Indian Phytopathology (2018) 71:299

    https://doi.org/10.1007/s42360-018-0046-7

    BOOK REVIEW

    Physiological and molecular plant pathology by H.N. Gaur

    Scientific publishers (India), Jan 2018, p 540. ISBN: 97938652331, price: INR 3650

    C. D. Mayee1,2

    Published online: 27 July 2018


    © Indian Phytopathological Society 2018

    All the Plant Pathologists shall agree after reading the of Plant Pathology. Firstly, the book narrates as to how the
    recent volume “Physiological and molecular plant pathol- pathogen invade the host by breaking the barriers. They are
    ogy written by Dr H.N. Gaur, Emeritus Professor, Maharana known to use several weapons in their armour such as; tox-
    Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, ins, enzymes, direct penetrations and so on. This is followed
    that the book is an excellent addition to the book shelf of by the mechanisms invoked by host and thus goes the fight
    Plant Pathology. In fact Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the father all controlled by again factors like environment, space and
    of Green Revolution in India, very aptly summed up the time. Ultimately, disease is an outcome of the battle won by
    philosophy of the book that the book has both the science pathogen and health is the product of resistance shown by
    and art of Plant Pathology as elaborated by Horsfall and host. The process of infection commences with right earnest
    Cowling in their first volume of the series of five volumes of for survival of the organisms but then several external fac-
    PLANT DISEASE, that understanding the disease is science tors determine the ultimate signs, symptoms and damage.
    and practicing the management of disease is an art. Today Along with the chapters on physiological and molecular
    the tremendous advances in biotechnology, molecular biol- bases of host-pathogen interactions, the author added some
    ogy, genomics, the IPR regimes and patents have become very useful information on plant biotechnology, bioinfor-
    part of biological sciences and therefore, Plant Pathology is matics, sociological and ethical angles of the new discov-
    not restricted to science and art but an element of commerce eries, which are essential to be read by all Plant Patholo-
    has been introduced due to commercialization of patented gists because such information at one place is difficult to
    technologies. be found. I strongly recommend the book to all the teachers
    The book traces the history of the subject but with a dif- of Plant Pathology whose concepts once get cleared can be
    ference which has relevance to the current advances. The useful in teaching even at undergraduate level. It should be
    peculiar process of pathogenesis of crown gall diseases part of the text book for the post graduate students of the
    caused by the bacterium, Agrobacteruim tumefaciens discov- subject, may be they are pursuing fungal, bacterial, viral,
    ered some time in 1890 has now revolutionized the science nematode or abiotic pathology .I find that even some of the
    of genetic engineering and this bacteria is considered as the narrations on the recent advances of biotechnology, bio-
    natural genetic engineer of plants. The author has redefined informatics could also be useful for the students of Plant
    the original concepts of pathogen, pathogenicity, pathogen- Protection sciences. I congratulate the author for bringing a
    esis, parasitism and so on; in the light of new knowledge of very comprehensive volume on physiological and molecular
    molecular biology. The chapters are arranged in a very lucid aspects of Plant Pathology.
    manner and one goes through it like a step by step learning

    * C. D. Mayee
    [email protected]
    1
    Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board, Indian Council
    of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India
    2
    South Asia Biotech Centre, New Delhi, India

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