Essential Plant Pathology is the highly anticipated textbook from award-winning educators Gail Schumann and Cleo D Arcy that is written specifically to the introductory course level. Students will find the approach of this new textbook to be a refreshing change from what is currently available. The book is reader-friendly with important terms and concepts clearly identified. Special Did you know? boxes will spark student interest by providing cultural and historical facts about plant diseases and every chapter will guide students to recommended resources, study questions, Words to Know, Internet research exercises, and CD-Rom exercises. The new Schumann/D Arcy text will come packaged with a dynamic CD-Rom that will work hand-in-hand with the popular APSnet Education Center and provide students and their professors with an engaging way to learn and teach plant pathology. Instructors will appreciate the 400+ full resolution color images that may be used in their handouts and PowerPoint presentations. Other copy-and-paste text resources will help tie customized lectures to the textbook. SPECIAL FEATURES to interest and challenge your students: Its easy-to-read, open-page design has illustrations and boxed call-outs emphasizing critical concepts. In This Chapter presents key concepts the students will learn. Disease Classics provide short boxed summaries of important diseases typically studied in introductory plant pathology courses.Did you know? call-outs present cultural and historical facts about plant diseases to help students understand how plant pathology impacts the real world.Case studies help students understand the specific causes, symptoms, and cycles of important diseases.Each Chapter includes Study Questions to help students check their comprehension and Recommended Resources to challenge them to learn more.Words to Know at the end of each chapter will improve your students plant pathology vocabulary. Students will find these words defined in the Illustrated Glossary included in the companion CD-Rom that comes packaged with their book.Icons in the book identify direct links to specific CD-Rom and Internet exercises appealing to today s digitally oriented student. These exercises allow instructors to custom design virtual labs to complement their lectures.Full integration between the textbook, CD-Rom, and the APS peer-reviewed Education Center, the most popular area of APSnet.Instructors will appreciate how the CD-Rom helps with course prep. It allows you to easily tie your lectures to the textbook to emphasize key concepts. Every image and illustration in the book is included on the CD-Rom and ready to be imported into an instructor s PowerPoint's. It s easy to copy and paste diagrams and color photos into presentations and reinforce your lectures with corresponding illustrations in the book. The students can use the illustrations on the CD-Rom too.