Timeline of plant pathology

Plant pathology has developed from antiquity, but scientific study began in the Early modern period and developed in the 19th century.[1]

300–286 BC Theophrastus, father of botany, wrote and studied diseases of trees, cereals and legumes[2]
1665 Robert Hooke illustrates a plant-pathogenic fungal disease, rose rust[1]
1675 Antony van Leeuwenhoek invents the compound microscope, in 1683 describes bacteria seen with the microscope[2]
1729 Pier Antonio Micheli, observes fungal spores, conducts germination experiments[2]
1755 Tillet reports on treatment of seeds[2]
1802 Lime sulfur first used to control plant disease[1]
1845–1849 Potato late blight epidemic in Ireland[1]
1853 Heinrich Anton de Bary father of modern mycology, establishes that fungi are the cause, not the result, of plant diseases,[2] publishes "Untersuchungen uber die Brandpilze"
1858 Julius Kühn publishes "Die Krankheiten der Kultergewachse"[1]
1865 M. Planchon discovers a new species of Phylloxera, which was named Phylloxera vastatrix.[3]
1868–1882 Coffee rust epidemic in Sri Lanka[1]
1875 Mikhail Woronin identified the cause of clubroot as a "plasmodiophorous organism" and gave it the name Plasmodiophora brassicae[1]
1876 Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, responsible for Panama disease, discovered in bananas in Australia[4]
1878–1885 Downy mildew of grape epidemic in France[1]
1879 Robert Koch establishes germ theory: diseases are caused by microorganisms[2]
1882 Lehrbuch der Baumkrankheiten (Textbook of Diseases of Trees), by Robert Hartig, is published in Berlin, the first textbook of forest pathology.[1]
1885 Bordeaux mixture introduced by Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet to control downy mildew on grape[1]
1885 Experimental proof that bacteria can cause plant diseases: "Erwinia amylovora" and fire blight of apple[1]
1886–1898 Recognition of plant viral diseases: Tobacco mosaic virus[1]
1889 Introduction of hot water treatment of seed for disease control by Jensen[1]
1902 First chair of plant pathology established, in Copenhagen[1]
1904 Mendelian inheritance of cereal rust resistance demonstrated[1]
1907 First academic department of plant pathology established at Cornell University[1]
1908 American Phytopathological Society founded[1]
1910 Panama disease reaches Western Hemisphere [4]
1911 Scientific journal Phytopathology founded[1]
1925 Panama disease reaches every banana-growing country in the Western Hemisphere[4]
1951 European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) founded[1]
1967 Recognition of plant pathogenic mycoplasma-like organisms[1]
1971 T. O. Diener discovers viroids, organisms smaller than viruses[5]

References
  1. Ainsworth, G.C. (1981). Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23032-2.
  2. "History of Plant Pathology". Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  3. "Plasmopara viticola, the Cause of Downy Mildew of Grapes". The Origin of Plant Pathology and The Potato Famine, and Other Stories of Plant Diseases. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  4. "Fusarium oxysporum : The End of the Banana Industry?". The Origin of Plant Pathology and The Potato Famine, and Other Stories of Plant Diseases. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  5. "Plant Diseases – History Of Plant Pathology". Retrieved 5 February 2015.
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