Published: 25 July 2024
History of Plant Pathology in Australasia
Guest Editor
A. Geering (Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia)
This special issue of Historical Records of Australian Science is devoted to the history of plant pathology in Australia. Despite the challenges of academic isolation and lack of communication, early plant pathologists flourished and made many world-first discoveries that assisted Australian farmers to overcome challenges in crop growth. In this special issue, published in cooperation with the Australasian Plant Pathology Society, specific attention is paid to describing some of the major plant diseases that affected agriculture during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
