On the Political Economy of Plant Disease Epidemics; Capita Selecta in Historical Epidemiolgy

251 Pages·2008·9.706 MB·English

by  Jan C. Zadoks

On the
political economy
of
plant disease
epidemics
Capita selecta in historical epidemiology
J.C. Zadoks
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On the political economy of plant disease epidemics
This publication was financially supported by the
‘Foundation Willie Commelin Scholten for Phytopathology’
(Stichting Willie Commelin Scholten voor de fytopathologie).
On the political economy
of plant disease epidemics
Capita selecta in historical epidemiology
J.C. Zadoks
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To my wife, children and grandchildren who gave me the
pleasure of being.
To the memory of Jan de Vries and Jo de Vries-Bosscha,
and others, who gave me more than only physical shelter
in a time of fury (1940-1945).

‘Agriculture and gardening, though of such great utility in producing the nutriment of mankind,
continue to be only Arts, consisting of numerous detached facts and vague opinions, without
a true theory to connect them, and to appreciate their analogy; at a time when many parts
of knowledge of much inferior consequence have been nicely arranged, and digested into
Sciences.’
Erasmus Darwin – 1800. Phytologia; or the philosophy of agriculture and
gardening. London, Johnson, page VII.