本教材共包含31个单元，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，主要包括植物病理学、昆虫学、农药学、杂草控制、生物防治、啮齿动物、综合防治、论文摘要等方面的知识，所涉及的作物包括主要农作物、蔬菜、果树等，各部分基本遵循由浅入深、由基础知识到新进展的递进方式编排。各单元按题目、课文、单词与词组、注释和思考题5个层面进行编排，全书最后按字母顺序列出了词汇表，词条后用圆括号列出了本词第一次出现的课文序号，便于学习时查找。

第二版前言
第一版前言
Unit 1 Plant Disease
Unit 2 Plant Disease Management
Unit 3 Rice Blast Disease
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 Potato Late Blight
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 Brown Planthopper
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 Eight Principles of Integrated Pest Management
Unit 29 Abstracts in Entomology
Unit 30 Abstracts in Plant Pathology
Unit 31 Abstracts in Pesticide Science
Vocabulary
References