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    The document summarizes the history of plant pathology in four phases: 1) The Ancient Period when Theophrastus first studied and wrote about plant diseases in 300-286 BC. 2) The Dark Period from 300-1300 AD when little progress was made. 3) The Renaissance/Pre-Modern Period from 1700-1800 AD when important discoveries were made including the invention of the compound microscope and the first observations of fungal spores and bacteria. 4) The Modern Period from 1800-1900 AD which was the "Golden Era" that established germ theory and saw important findings about specific plant diseases and their causes.

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    WELCOME TO ALL

    Prof. M. Ashrafuzzaman Dept. Plant Pathology, BAU

    History of Plant Pathology

    Four Phases
    1. 2. 3. 4. Ancient period Dark period Renaissance period Modern period

    Ancient Period
    Theophrastus (300-286 B.C.) Study and write about the diseases of trees, cereals and legumes in his book enquiry into plants His approach was observational and speculative rather than experimental.

    Theory of spontaneous generation

    Father of botany

    DARK PERIOD
    300AD

    and 1300AD Also called pre-renaissance period in history no increase in the knowledge of plant pathology

    PRE-MODERN/ RENAISSANCE PERIOD/AUTOGENIC ERA (17th mid 19th)

    1675 A. D.-Anton van Leeuwenhoek (Holland) Invented compound microscope in 1675

    In 1683 he described bacteria seen with this microscope

    1729 A. D.-Pier Antonio Micheli (Italian)


    Observed fungal spores for the first time and conducted many spore germination studies in 1729 He published a book Nova Plantarum Genera in which he gave descriptions about 1900 species in Latin out of which 900 were fungi.

    Father of Mycology.

    3) 1755 A. D.-Tillet (French)

    Published a paper on bunt or stinking smut of wheat He reported the chemical treatment of seeds

    MODERN PERIOD/ GOLDEN ERA/PATHOGENIC ERA (1800 1900)

    IRIS FAMINE

    In 1845, the potato crop in Ireland was completely wiped out by late blight disease caused great famine in 1846.
    This resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of people immigration of more than one and a half million Irish to United States.

    4) 1853 A. D.-Anton De Bary (Germany)


    established that fungi are the causes, not result of plant diseases renamed the casual organism of late blight as Phytophthora infestans. He discovered heteroecious nature of rust fungi Detailed life cycles of downy mildew He wrote a book named Morphology and Physiology of fungi, lichens and Myxomycetes (1866).

    father mode Mycology

    8) 1879 A. D.- Robert Koch Established the germ theory

    Germ theory
    diseases are caused by the presence and actions of specific micro-organisms that microorganisms are the cause of many diseases.

    8) 1889 A. D. Beijerinck (Dutch)


    proved that the virus is not a living microorganism.
    Founder of virology

    N.A. Cobb Contributed a lot to nematode morphology, taxonomy and methodology


    Founder of nematology

    Paul Neergaard

    Father of seed pathology

    Bengal Famine 1943 Brown spot diseases

    Bangladesh perspective

    Department of plant pathology Seed Pathology Centre Plant Disease diagnostic Clinic

    Today Plant Pathology Some major trends were in the following areas:
    Physiological plant pathology Genetics of the host and the pathogens Environment and its relation to plant disease Nature of disease resistance in plants Biochemistry and physiology of the diseased plants Tissue culture in plant pathology Ecological study of plant pathogens Integrated plant disease management Biotechnology and genetic engineering

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