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.

A. General Aspects 1. Introduction 2. Parasitism and Disease Development 3. Effects on physiology 4. Genetics of disease 5. How pathogens cause disease 6. Plant defense 7. Environmental impacts 8. Epidemiology 9. Control of diseases

B. Specific plant diseases 10. Fungi a. Classification b. Examples of diseases 11. Oomycetes 12. Prokaryote inc phytoplasma 13. Virus and viroids 14. Nematodes 15. Other pathogens

C. Diseases of Specific crop plants 16. Cereals 17. Rice 18. Soyabeans 19. Cool season legumes 20. Brassicas 21. Potato 22. Turfgrass 23. Trees (forest) 24. Grapes 25. Tree crops 26. Ornamentals 27. Bananas 28. Arabidopsis 29. Medicago truncatula 30. Citrus