The Role of Plant Pathology in Food Safety and Food Security

1. Plant Diseases and the World’s Dependence on Rice
R. S. Zeigler, S. Savary

2. Development of Appropriate Strategies to Control Cassava Diseases in Ghana
E. Moses

3. Biosecurity in the Movement of Commodities as a Component of Global Food Security
N. A. Graaff, W. Khoury

4. ISPP and the Challenge of Food Security
Peter Scott, Richard Strange

5. Globalisation and the Threat to Biosecurity
Harry C. Evans, James M. Waller

6. Genetic Modification (GM) as a New Tool in the Resistance Toolbox
Thomas Hohn, Gabriele Schachermayr

7. The Role of Plant Pathology and Biotechnology in Food Security in Africa
James M. Onsando, Florence Wambugu

8. The Secondary Metabolite Toxin, Sirodesmin PL, and Its Role in Virulence of the Blackleg Fungus
Barbara J. Howlett, Ellen M. Fox, Anton J. Cozijnsen, Angela P. Wouw, Candace E. Elliott

9. Biological and Chemical Complexity of Fusarium proliferatum

Robert H. Proctor, Anne E. Desjardins, Antonio Moretti

10. Bioterrorism: A Threat to Plant Biosecurity?
J. P. Stack, F. Suffert, M. L. Gullino

11. The Revised International Plant Protection Convention – a New Context for Plant Quarantine
William Roberts

12. Pest Risk Analysis as Applied to Plant Pathogens
Françoise Petter, Sarah Brunel, Muriel Suffert

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Pathology, Plant Sciences, Agriculture, Bioinformatics