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This new textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspect of plant diseases, including pathogens, plant-pathogen interactions, their management, and future perspectives. Plant diseases have limited crop production for as long as humans have engaged in agriculture and horticulture. With climate change, globalisation and increasing awareness of the impact of pesticide use on the environment, today there is increased focus on food security as well as the various impacts of productive agriculture. Written by a group of Nordic professors and teachers of plant pathology who have collaborated together for many years, the book gives expert and seamless coverage. Their approach to plant pathology is to describe the nature of the problem, the mechanisms behind it, the kinds of organisms which cause disease, the fundamental biology of plant-microbe interactions and the approaches used to control and manage disease. The book is relevant for a worldwide audience, but offers a North European perspective in its selection of examples of plant disease.

Anne Marte Tronsmo is professor emerita in plant pathology at NMBU, where she taught plant pathology from BSc to PhD level for 35 years. Her research includes physiological and genetic aspects of induced and natural resistance to fungal diseases in various crops, as well as resistance to winter injury in grasses and cereals.

Annika Djurle had her undergraduate and PhD education at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, where she worked as a senior lecturer in plant pathology. Her main research area has been plant disease epidemiology in agricultural crops, in a Swedish, European and International perspective.

Arne Tronsmo is professor emeritus in Applied Microbiology at NMBU. His main research area has been Biological control of plant diseases with antagonistic microorganisms or natural products (Biopesticides).

David B. Collinge has been Associate Prof since 1987 and, since 2002 Professor of Plant Pathology at Copenhagen University where he teaches on several plant pathology, microbiology and genetics courses from BSc to PhD level. His research areas include defence mechanisms in plants, biological control, plant biotechnology and more recently endophytes.

Jonathan Yuen is Professor in Plant Pathology, with a specialization in epidemiology, at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His research interests cover areas from human disease epidemiology to the factors affecting plant disease management decisions.

Lisa Munk is Associate Professor Emerita, PhD, in Plant Pathology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her main research area has been host resistance and other strategies for managing fungal diseases in agricultural crops.