Applied Microbiology

Infectious Diseases in Plants

Plant diseases create a critical risk to food security, food safety, biodiversity, national economies and the rural environment. Infectious plant diseases are resulting from a pathogenic agent which includes a fungus, virus, bacterium, mycoplasma, viroid, nematode, or parasitic flowering plant. An infectious agent is capable of reproducing inside or on its host and spreading from one inclined host to any other. The infections are due to virus, fungi, nematodes, bacteria and parasites. These infection inflicting agents causes blights, canker, wilts, rots and rusts.