Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Prepared by
Mamta Shah
Agriculture instructor @LTS
shahmamta149@gmail.com
Plant Pathology or Phytopathology
phytopathology is derived from Greek word
Phyton = plant
Pathos = suffering/ disease
Logos = study/ knowledge
1943 (The Great Brown spot of rice (Helminthosporium oryza) now India (west Bengal)
Bengal famine) Drechslera oryza