As befits a volume in the Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences,
this book was written with problems of practical agriculture in
mind. One of the ways of controlling plant disease is by using
resistant cultivars; and from the wide literature of genetics and
biochemistry in plant pathology I have emphasized what seems to
bear most closely on breeding for disease resistance. This has a
double advantage, for it happens all to the good that this emphasis
is also an emphasis on primary causes of disease, as distinct from
subsequent processes of symptom expression and other secondary
effects. The chapters are entirely modern in outlook. The great
revolution in biology this century had its high moments in the
elucidation of the DNA double helix in 1953 and the deciphering of
the genetic code in 1961. This book, so far as I know, is the first
in plant pathology to be conceived within the framework of this new
biology. Half the book could not have been written 20 years ago,
even if there had then been available all the literature that has
since accumulated on the genetics and chemistry of plant disease.
The new biology is the cement this book uses to bind the literature
together. Another feature of this book is an emphasis on
thermodynamics.
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