Trade Diploma in Agriculture Trimester II Year 2014 PPA 401 Lecture 3 Based Tutorial Questions & Answers T3: PPA 401: Plant Pathology
College of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry
Fiji National University, Koronivia, Fiji Islands
1. Father of botany‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐Theophrastus (300‐286 B.C.) 2. Theophrastus (300‐286 B.C.) written a book ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐enquiry into plants 3. Theophrastus in his book “enquiry into plants” written about‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐Study and write about the diseases of trees, cereals and legumes. 4. Theophrastus approach was observational and speculative rather than experimental. 5. “Theory of spontaneous generation” given by Theophrastus. 6. Anton van Leeuwenhoek invented compound microscope in 1675 7. In 1683 Anton van Leeuwenhoek described bacteria seen with this microscope 8. Pier Antonio Micheli (1729 A. D.) Observed fungal spores for the first time and conducted experiment on many spore germination. 9. Pier Antonio Micheli published a book “Nova Plantarum Genera”. 10. Father of Mycology‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Pier Antonio Micheli 11. Tillet (French) Published a paper on bunt or stinking smut of wheat 12. Tillet reported the chemical treatment of seeds for protection of seed from bunt and smut disease. 13. IRIS FAMINE related with late blight of potato. 14. Late blight of potato caused great famine in 1846 in Ireland. 15. IRIS FAMINE resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of people. 16. IRIS FAMINE also resulted immigration of more than one and a half million Irish to United States 17. father modern Mycology‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Anton De Bary 18. father modern plant pathology‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Anton De Bary 19. Anton De Bary established the relationship between host and pathogen that fungi are the causes, not result of plant diseases. 20. Anton De Bary renamed the casual organism of late blight as Phytophthora infestans. 21. Anton De Bary discovered heteroecious nature of rust fungi 22. Robert Koch established the germ theory concept. 23. D. Beijerinck (Dutch) proved that the virus is not a living microorganism. 24. Founder of virology ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ D. Beijerinck (Dutch) 25. N.A. Cobb Contributed a lot to nematode morphology, taxonomy and methodology. 26. Founder of nematology‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ N.A. Cobb 27. Father of seed pathology‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Paul Neergaard 28. Bengal Famine 1943 causesBrown spot diseases in rice.