Schumann (Marquette U., Wisconsin) and D'Arcy (U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) update their textbook on diseases of plants, revising and augmenting the content and expanding the electronic resources accompanying it. They cover diagnosing and understanding plant diseases, fungi, bacteria, nematodes, viruses, parasite flowering plants, abiotic factors, types of plant diseases, how plants interact with pathogens, how people influence plant disease epidemics, and how to prevent or manage plant disease epidemics. Brilliant color photographs are used throughout. No date is noted for the first edition. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)