Abstract

                                Plant Pathology or the study of plant diseases is, in a sense, one of the most modern of the applied sciences. So modern is it that it is still largely in the leading strings of the mycologist and, in fact in India, the term mycology is considered as synonymous with plant pathology. This is to be regretted because many pathological conditions in plants are produced by agents other than fungi, so the terms mycology and mycologist do not rightly. indicate the nature of the work and the training required by an investi-. gator of plant diseases. The person who is a mycologist and nothing more is, in fact, very ill-equipped for a study of the problems connected with diseases affecting plants.

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