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]

Early history

• 300–286 BC; Theophrastus, father of botany, wrote and studied diseases of trees, cereals and legumes ^[2]

17th century

• 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]

18th century

• 1729; Pier Antonio Micheli observes fungal spores, conducts germination experiments ^[2]
• 1755; Mathieu Tillet reports on treatment of seeds ^[2]

19th century

• 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]
• 1871; Thomas Taylor publishes the first USDA papers on microscopic plant pathogens ^[4]
• 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 ^[5]
• 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 J. L. Jensen ^[1]

20th century

• 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 ^[5]
• 1911; Scientific journal Phytopathology founded ^[1]
• 1923; Lawrence Ogilvie identified the virus that had devastated Bermuda's high-value lily bulb crops. ^[6]
• 1925; Panama disease reaches every banana-growing country in the Western Hemisphere ^[5]
• 1951; European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) founded ^[1]
• 1967; Recognition of plant pathogenic mycoplasma-like organisms ^[1]
• 1971; Theodor Otto Diener discovers viroids, organisms smaller than viruses ^[7]

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. Grace, J K (September 1988). "The Role of Thomas Taylor in the History of American Phytopathology" . Annual Review of Phytopathology. 26 (1): 25–29. doi:10.1146/annurev.py.26.090188.000325.
5. "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.
6. Ogilvie, Lawrence (April 1927). "An Important Virus Disease of Lilium longiflorum and its Varieties". Nature. 119 (2997): 528. Bibcode:1927Natur.119..528O. doi: 10.1038/119528b0 . S2CID   8937999.
7. Diener TO (August 1971). "Potato spindle tuber "virus". IV. A replicating, low molecular weight RNA". Virology. 45 (2): 411–28. doi:10.1016/0042-6822(71)90342-4. PMID   5095900.