Contents: Preface. 1. Objective, scope and concept of plant pathology. 2. History of plant pathology. 3. Mycology. 4. Plant bacteriology. 5. Fungal diseases of crop plants. 6. Phanerogamic parasites and non parasites. 7. Plant virology. 8. Plant disease epidemiology. 9. Fill in the blanks. 10. Glossary of technical terms in plant pathology. 11. Definition and terms. 12. Fungal an bacterial detection media. 13. General plant pathological laboratory equipments. Appendices.