为了便于学生顺利地从公共英语过渡到能听、说、读以及翻译专业英语，编者尝试性地编辑了这本教材。

本教材按60-80学时设定内容及篇幅。所有内容均来自国外植物保护方面的最新教材、期刊和电子文稿。

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Unit 1 Plant and Disease

Unit 2 Plant Disease Management

Unit 3 An Arms Race between Host and Pathogen in Genes

Unit 4 Root-Knot Nematode Parasitism and Host Response

Unit 5 Tomato Spotted Wilt

Unit 6 Crown Gall

Unit 7 Wheat Rusts

Unit 8 Smut Diseases of Cereal Crops

Unit 9 Wheat Take-all

Unit 10 Apple Scab

Unit 11 Introduction to Insect

Unit 12 Wheat Aphid

Unit 13 European Corn Borer

Unit 14 Insect Pests of Tree Fruits

Unit 15 Insect Pest of Cotton

Unit 16 Enhancing Insect Resistance in Rice through Biotechnology

Unit 17 Insect Pests of Sugarcane

Unit 18 Insect Pests of Cruciferous Crops

Unit 19 Stored Product Insect Pests

Unit 20 The Role of Pesticides in Agricultural Crop Protection

Unit 21 Working towards More Efficient Application of Pesticides ...

Unit 22 Biodegradation-of Pesticides

Unit 23 Classical Biological Control of Weeds in Europe

Unit 24 Trichoderma. a Biocontrol Agent

Unit 25 Biological Control of Insect Pests

Unit 26 Why Study Rodent Populations?

Unit 27 Insect Pest Management in Potatoes

Unit 28 Integrated Pest Management (IPM)：Definition, Historical Development and Implementation and the Other IPM

Unit 29 Abstracts in Entomology

Unit 30 Abstracts in Plant Pathology

Vocabulary