Contents: Part A: 1. Importance of Plant Disease, Scope and Objective of Plant Pathology. 2. History of Plant Pathology with special reference to Indian work. 3. Concepts and terms in Plant Pathology. 4. Important Plant Pathogenic Organisms. 5. Pathogenesis, Factors Affecting Disease Development, Disease Triangle and Tetrahedron. 6. Classification of Plant Diseases. 7. Abiotic Diseases and their management. 8. General Characters of fungi - Definition of fungus, somatic structures, types of fungal thalli, fungal tissues, modifications of thallus, reproduction in fungi (asexual and sexual). 9. Bacteria and mollicutes: General morphological characteristics, basic methods of classification and reproduction. 10. Phytoplasma, Spiroplasma, Nematode, Viroids and Algae. 11. Virus: Nature, Structure, Replication and Transmission. 12. Phanerogamic plant parasites. 13. Classification, Morphology and Symptoms caused by Plant parasitic nematodes. 14. Dispersal and survival of the Plant pathogens. 15. Parasitism and Variability in Plant Pathogens. 16. Pathogenesis-role of enzyme, toxin, growth regulators in disease development. 17. Defense mechanism in plant. 18. Epidemiology: Factor affecting disease development. 19. Principles and methods of Plant disease Management. 20. Fungicides nature, chemical combinations and formulations. 21. Fungicides classification and their mode of action. 22. Antibiotics. Part B: 1. Acquaintance with various laboratory equipments and microscopy. 2. Collection and preservation of disease specimen. 3. Preparation of media, isolation and Koch s postulates. 4. General study of different structures of fungi. 5. Study of symptoms of various plant diseases. 6. Study of representative fungal genera. 7. Staining and identification of plant pathogenic bacteria. 8. Transmission of plant viruses. 9. Study of phanerogamic plant parasites. 10. Study of morphological features and identification of plant parasitic nematodes. 11. Sampling and extraction of nematodes from soil and plant material. 12. Preparation of nematode mounting. 13. Study of fungicides and their formulations. 14. Methods of pesticide application and their safe use. 15. Calculation of fungicide sprays concentrations. Studies on phytopathogens had also been very interesting since centuries. Discovery of basic-glass magnifies had opened the new dimensions with the discovery of basic microscope. The microbial world is fantastically investigated, so as in case of plants. Beneficial and harmful microbes have been identified and being utilized for the purpose of crop production. The Plant Pathology discipline offers immense opportunities. Several outbreaks and potential threats have been investigated. The book on Fundamentals of Plant Pathology will fulfill the education requirements of new generation education. The topics are selected as per the syllabus and presented in simplest way to be understood by students. Plant Pathology is the science that needs expertise in diagnosis, detection and concurrent adoption of management approaches.