About Lesson
Pest includes
- Pathogens
- Insect pests or non-insect pests
- Parasites (including weeds)
Disease
- Disease is an abnormal condition in the plant produced by an organism.
- Diseases are produced by a variety of organisms from both plant and animal kingdoms, viz, fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes and insects.
- Diseases reduce total biomass production and economic yield up to 100% of the crop in one or more ways of Killing or damaging of leaf, branches, reproductive units or whole plant.
How disease develops?
- The development of any disease depends on a close interaction among three diverse factors: host, pathogen and environment
Up to when a cultivar remains resistant?
- Coevolution of pathogen and host natural evolution which develops resistance plants also being coevolution of pathogens
- A non-resistant variety may disappear.