Plant pathology

Plant pathology, the subject area dealing with the diseases of plants caused by bacteria, virus, fungi and pests, was established  in 1883 at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, today the Faculty of Life Sciences.

 

The botanist Emil Rostrup (1831-1907) was the first lecturer and a very studious scientist, author and communicator - among other things he was the first to organize annual studies of the crop diseases in Denmark.

He also built up an outstanding collection of deformed and infected plants - The Plant Pathology Collection housing now about  30.000 specimens. This collection is the general herbarium for plant pathology in Denmark being used instructing the students and still being supplemented with new specimens.  The collection is accessible via Index Herbariorum. 

 

The illustrations below are selections from the older collections in the library concerning plant pathology - partly Danish classics with fine coloured plates, partly major works from especially Germany showing plates of excellence - also folios from the outstanding international work Handbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten established by Poul Sorauer (1839-1916).

 

 

M. Tessier:  Traité des maladies des graines.  1783 The oldest illustrated book on plant pathology in the library.

 

 

 

E. Blanchard: La Zoologie agricole ... [1854]

 

 

 

H. Schacht:  Bericht an das Königl. Landes-Oekonomie-Collegium über die Kartoffelpflanze und deren Krankheiten.  1856

 

 

 

Poul Sorauer:  Handbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten ...  1874

 

 

 

Poul Sorauer:  Atlas der Pflanzenkrankheiten ...  1887-93

 

 

 

O. Rostrup:  Afbildninger af Svampesygdomme og Insektangreb paa Havebrugsplanter ...  [1911]

 

 

 

H. Pape:  Die Praxis der Bekämpfung von Krankheiten und Schädlingen der Zierpflanzen.  1932

 

 

 

O. Appel:  Atlas der Krankheiten der landwirtschaftlichen Kulturpflanzen. 3. Reihe.  1933

 

 

 

Ernst Gram og Anna Weber:  Plantesygdomme. Haandbog for Frugtavlere, Gartnere og Haveejere.  1940

 

 

 

Ernst Gram:  Kartoflens Sygdomme i Billeder og Tekst.  1940

 

 

 

Ernst Gram og P. Bovien:  Rodfrugternes Sygdomme og Skadedyr.  1942

 

 

 

Chr. Stapel og P. Bovien:  Markfrøafgrødernes Sygdomme og Skadedyr.  [1943]