Neeta Sharma is an author of Basic Plant Pathology (Pb 2018) .
<div class="short-description" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px;"><div class="std" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">The book primarily caters to the requirements of undergraduate and postgraduate students of botany and plant pathology in the faculties of science and agriculture. It will also be useful to the candidates preparing for different competitive examinations.</p><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.7px; text-align: justify;">This comprehensive updated textbook makes an attempt to present the fundamental principles and concepts of plant pathology in a simple way for the beginners. It includes history of plant pathology, symptoms of plant diseases, host–parasite relationship and interaction, epidemiology and forecasting of plant diseases, effect of climatic conditions on plant diseases, physiologic specialization, defense mechanism, methods of studying plant diseases and principles of plant disease control. Though it is primarily written to cater to the requirements of undergraduate and postgraduate students of botany and plant pathology in faculties of science and agriculture, it will also be useful to the candidates preparing for different competitive examinations.</span><br></div></div></div>
