1. The history and development of plant pathologyRichard P. Oliver2. Effects of pathogens and disease on plant physiologyRumiana V. Ray3. Pathogenicity-How do plant pathogens cause disease?Pietro Spanu, Antonio Di Pietro, and Richard P. Oliver4. Genetics of plant disease and resistanceRalph Huckelhoven and Klaus Pillen5. Plant immunity and plant defenseRalph Huckelhoven and Alexander Schouten6. Plant disease quantificationEmerson M. Del Ponte, Anne-Katrin Mahlein, and Clive H. Bock7. Epidemics: Disease in populationsEmerson M. Del Ponte and Eduardo S.G. Mizubuti8. Plant disease warning systemsDavid H. Gent and Emerson M. Del Ponte9. Environmental changes and plant disease epidemicsB.D.L. Fitt, A. Qi, and B. Richard10. Control of plant diseasesRichard P. Oliver11. Postharvest diseasesWayne M. Jurick, II and James E.Adaskaveg12. Classification of phytopathogens and diseasesRichard P. Oliver13. Diseases caused by fungiRichard P. Oliver14. Diseases caused by PlasmodiophoridaRichard P. Oliver15. Diseases caused by OomycetesFrancine Govers16. Plant diseases caused by prokaryotes: Bacteria and mollicutesGitte Erbs and Mari-Anne Newman17. Plant diseases caused by virusesEdward P. Rybicki and Gary D. Foster18. Plant diseases caused by nematodesCatherine J. Lilley, Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, and Sebastian Eves-van den Akker19. Plant diseases caused by parasitic higher plantsDavid N. Appel20. Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system for understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms of plant immunityRoger Innes21. BananaGert H.J. Kema22. BarleyRobert S. Brueggeman23. CanolaAngela P. Van de Wouw and Barbara J. Howlett24. CitrusRenato Beozzo Bassanezi25. Cool-season grain legumesWeidong Chen and Lyndon Porter26. The grape cropFrancisco J. Lopez-Ruiz27. Forest treesRichard C. Hamelin28. Diseases of plantation forest trees in the tropics and Southern HemisphereIrene Barnes and Michael J. Wingfield29. CannabisJanna Beckerman30. Diseases of maize/cornDave K. Berger31. Ornamental plantsJanna Beckerman32. Other model hosts: Medicago truncatula, Brachypodium distachyon, and Nicotiana benthamianaRichard P. Oliver33. PotatoVivianne G.A.A. Vleeshouwers and Evert Jacobsen34. RiceDaniel Ebbole35. The soybean cropAnne E. Dorrance36. SorghumHillary L. Mehl37. Sugar beetChenggen Chu, Kevin M. Dorn, and Melvin D. Bolton38. The tomato cropPierre J.G.M. de Wit39. Temperate fruit production: Pome, stone fruit, and berry cropsJanna Beckerman40. Diseases of major tropical and subtropical fruit plantsNimal Adikaram41. Turfgrass diseasesGerald (Lee) Miller, Jr42. The wheat cropRichard P. Oliver