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WELCOMETO ALL Prof. M. Ashrafuzzaman Dept. Plant Pathology, BAU Four Phases Ancient period Dark period Renaissance period Modern period History of Plant Pathology Ancient Period Theophrastus (300-286 B.C.) Study and write about the diseases of trees, cereals and legumes in his book enquiry into plants His approach was observational and speculative rather than experimental. Theory of spontaneous generation Father of botany 300AD and 1300AD Also called pre-renaissance period in history no increase in the knowledge of plant pathology DARK PERIOD 1675 A. D.-Anton van Leeuwenhoek (Holland) Invented compound microscope in 1675 In 1683 he described bacteria seen with this microscope PRE-MODERN/ RENAISSANCE PERIOD/AUTOGENIC ERA (17th –mid 19th) 1729 A. D.-Pier Antonio Micheli (Italian) Observed fungal spores for the first time and conducted many spore germination studies in 1729 He published a book “Nova Plantarum Genera” in which he gave descriptions about 1900 species in Latin out of which 900 were fungi. Father of Mycology. 3) 1755 A. D.-Tillet (French) Published a paper on bunt or stinking smut of wheat He reported the chemical treatment of seeds IRIS FAMINE In 1845, the potato crop in Ireland was completely wiped out by late blight disease caused great famine in 1846. This resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of people immigration of more than one and a half million Irish to United States. MODERN PERIOD/ GOLDEN ERA/PATHOGENIC ERA (1800 – 1900) 4) 1853 A. D.-Anton De Bary (Germany) established that fungi are the causes, not result of plant diseases renamed the casual organism of late blight as Phytophthora infestans. He discovered heteroecious nature of rust fungi Detailed life cycles of downy mildew He wrote a book named “Morphology and Physiology of fungi, lichens and Myxomycetes” (1866). 8) 1879 A. D.- Robert Koch Established the germ theory Germ theory diseases are caused by the presence and actions of specific?micro