Encyclopaedia of Viral Diseases In Plant

Viruses are intracellular (inside cells) pathogenic particles that infect other living organisms. Human diseases caused by viruses include chickenpox, herpes, influenza, rabies, smallpox, and AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). Although these are the viruses most of us are familiar with, the first virus ever described and from which the term was eventually derived was tobacco mosaic virus or TMV (the term virus was derived from the original description of the causal agent of TMV-a contagion vivum fluidum or contagious living fluid). TMV was discovered by Martinis W. Beijerinck, a Dutch microbiologist, in 1898. Virus particles are extremely small and can be seen only with an electron microscope. This book will be beneficial and of practical use to students, teachers and research workers in the field of Plant Pathology, Numerology, Botany and Agricultural Sciences. Contents: introduction; External Symptoms of Viral Diseases of Plants; New and Emerging Plant Viruses; Emerging Virus Diseases of Greenhouse Vegetable Crops; Disease Causing Agents in Plants-Symptoms and Control; Tobacco Mosaic Virus: The Beginning of Plant Virology; Virus Diseases of Food Graminoid Plants; Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus; Virus Diseases of Forage Feed Plants; Pearl Millet Diseases-Viral.