Agrios' Plant Pathology

Richard Oliver is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Chief Scientist at the Centre for Crop Disease Management at Curtin University, Australia. Amongst other honors, Dr Oliver is an Honorary Fellow of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) and Honorary Professor at Exeter and Nottingham Universities. He is also a past President of the British Society for Plant Pathology. Recently, Curtin and the GRDC have established a bilateral research program called the Centre for Crop Disease Management. This is a 5-year program initially with total funding of $96m. Dr Oliver is the Centre Chief Scientist, reporting to the Board with a brief to oversee the science/research programs and projects, develop new research proposals, monitor research quality and to build and maintain international research linkages. His primary role is to build and manage overseas collaborations and so works closely with research institutes in the UK, Europe and USA.

1. The history and development of plant pathology Richard P. Oliver 2. Effects of pathogens and disease on plant physiology Rumiana V. Ray 3. Pathogenicity—How do plant pathogens cause disease? Pietro Spanu, Antonio Di Pietro, and Richard P. Oliver 4. Genetics of plant disease and resistance Ralph Huckelhoven and Klaus Pillen 5. Plant immunity and plant defense Ralph Huckelhoven and Alexander Schouten 6. Plant disease quantification Emerson M. Del Ponte, Anne-Katrin Mahlein, and Clive H. Bock 7. Epidemics: Disease in populations Emerson M. Del Ponte and Eduardo S.G. Mizubuti 8. Plant disease warning systems David H. Gent and Emerson M. Del Ponte 9. Environmental changes and plant disease epidemics B.D.L. Fitt, A. Qi, and B. Richard 10. Control of plant diseases Richard P. Oliver 11. Postharvest diseases Wayne M. Jurick, II and James E.Adaskaveg 12. Classification of phytopathogens and diseases Richard P. Oliver 13. Diseases caused by fungi Richard P. Oliver 14. Diseases caused by Plasmodiophorida Richard P. Oliver 15. Diseases caused by Oomycetes Francine Govers 16. Plant diseases caused by prokaryotes: Bacteria and mollicutes Gitte Erbs and Mari-Anne Newman 17. Plant diseases caused by viruses Edward P. Rybicki and Gary D. Foster 18. Plant diseases caused by nematodes Catherine J. Lilley, Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, and Sebastian Eves-van den Akker 19. Plant diseases caused by parasitic higher plants David N. Appel 20. Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system for understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms of plant immunity Roger Innes 21. Banana Gert H.J. Kema 22. Barley Robert S. Brueggeman 23. Canola Angela P. Van de Wouw and Barbara J. Howlett 24. Citrus Renato Beozzo Bassanezi 25. Cool-season grain legumes Weidong Chen and Lyndon Porter 26. The grape crop Francisco J. Lopez-Ruiz 27. Forest trees Richard C. Hamelin 28. Diseases of plantation forest trees in the tropics and Southern Hemisphere Irene Barnes and Michael J. Wingfield 29. Cannabis Janna Beckerman 30. Diseases of maize/corn Dave K. Berger 31. Ornamental plants Janna Beckerman 32. Other model hosts: Medicago truncatula, Brachypodium distachyon, and Nicotiana benthamiana Richard P. Oliver 33. Potato Vivianne G.A.A. Vleeshouwers and Evert Jacobsen 34. Rice Daniel Ebbole 35. The soybean crop Anne E. Dorrance 36. Sorghum Hillary L. Mehl 37. Sugar beet Chenggen Chu, Kevin M. Dorn, and Melvin D. Bolton 38. The tomato crop Pierre J.G.M. de Wit 39. Temperate fruit production: Pome, stone fruit, and berry crops Janna Beckerman 40. Diseases of major tropical and subtropical fruit plants Nimal Adikaram 41. Turfgrass diseases Gerald (Lee) Miller, Jr 42. The wheat crop Richard P. Oliver