Agrios' Plant Pathology

Richard Oliver is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Agriculture and Chief Scientist at the Centre for Crop Disease Management at Curtin University, Australia. Amongst other honors, Dr Oliver is an Honorary Fellow of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) and Honorary Professor at Exeter and Nottingham Universities. He is also a past President of the British Society for Plant Pathology. Recently, Curtin and the GRDC have established a bilateral research program called the Centre for Crop Disease Management. This is a 5-year program initially with total funding of $96m. Dr Oliver is the Centre Chief Scientist, reporting to the Board with a brief to oversee the science/research programs and projects, develop new research proposals, monitor research quality and to build and maintain international research linkages. His primary role is to build and manage overseas collaborations and so works closely with research institutes in the UK, Europe and USA.

• 1. The history and development of plant pathologyRichard P. Oliver2. Effects of pathogens and disease on plant physiologyRumiana V. Ray3. Pathogenicity—How do plant pathogens cause disease?Pietro Spanu, Antonio Di Pietro, and Richard P. Oliver4. Genetics of plant disease and resistanceRalph Huckelhoven and Klaus Pillen5. Plant immunity and plant defenseRalph Huckelhoven and Alexander Schouten6. Plant disease quantificationEmerson M. Del Ponte, Anne-Katrin Mahlein, and Clive H. Bock7. Epidemics: Disease in populationsEmerson M. Del Ponte and Eduardo S.G. Mizubuti8. Plant disease warning systemsDavid H. Gent and Emerson M. Del Ponte9. Environmental changes and plant disease epidemicsB.D.L. Fitt, A. Qi, and B. Richard10. Control of plant diseasesRichard P. Oliver11. Postharvest diseasesWayne M. Jurick, II and James E.Adaskaveg12. Classification of phytopathogens and diseasesRichard P. Oliver13. Diseases caused by fungiRichard P. Oliver14. Diseases caused by PlasmodiophoridaRichard P. Oliver15. Diseases caused by OomycetesFrancine Govers16. Plant diseases caused by prokaryotes: Bacteria and mollicutesGitte Erbs and Mari-Anne Newman17. Plant diseases caused by virusesEdward P. Rybicki and Gary D. Foster18. Plant diseases caused by nematodesCatherine J. Lilley, Victor Hugo Moura de Souza, and Sebastian Eves-van den Akker19. Plant diseases caused by parasitic higher plantsDavid N. Appel20. Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system for understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms of plant immunityRoger Innes21. BananaGert H.J. Kema22. BarleyRobert S. Brueggeman23. CanolaAngela P. Van de Wouw and Barbara J. Howlett24. CitrusRenato Beozzo Bassanezi25. Cool-season grain legumesWeidong Chen and Lyndon Porter26. The grape cropFrancisco J. Lopez-Ruiz27. Forest treesRichard C. Hamelin28. Diseases of plantation forest trees in the tropics and Southern HemisphereIrene Barnes and Michael J. Wingfield29. CannabisJanna Beckerman30. Diseases of maize/cornDave K. Berger31. Ornamental plantsJanna Beckerman32. Other model hosts: Medicago truncatula, Brachypodium distachyon, and Nicotiana benthamianaRichard P. Oliver33. PotatoVivianne G.A.A. Vleeshouwers and Evert Jacobsen34. RiceDaniel Ebbole35. The soybean cropAnne E. Dorrance36. SorghumHillary L. Mehl37. Sugar beetChenggen Chu, Kevin M. Dorn, and Melvin D. Bolton38. The tomato cropPierre J.G.M. de Wit39. Temperate fruit production: Pome, stone fruit, and berry cropsJanna Beckerman40. Diseases of major tropical and subtropical fruit plantsNimal Adikaram41. Turfgrass diseasesGerald (Lee) Miller, Jr42. The wheat cropRichard P. Oliver