Emerging Infectious Diseases

Plant Pathology and Disease Control

Prevent disease avoidance by selecting a time of the year or a place in which the environment is not favourable for infection or where there is no inoculum. Exclusion — prevents inoculum from being introduced. Eradication – inoculum eradication, destruction or inactivation. Anything that prevents a plant from performing its full potential is defined as a plant disease. This is a broad definition of plant abiotic and biotic diseases.