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*新教材、期刊和电子文稿。在编注过程中,仅对较长的原文进行了适当压缩和衔接,对原文个别错误的地方进行了订正。在取材时,主要包括植物病理学、昆虫学、农药学、杂草控制、生物**、啮齿动物、综合**及论文摘要等方面的知识,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、思考题和参考文献6个层面进行编排,全书*后按字母顺序列出了词汇表(约1430词条),词条后用圆括号列出了本词**次出现的课文序号,便于学习时查找。随着科技飞速发展,薪的词汇层出不穷,有些词汇注入了新的含义,本教材仅列出了课文中主要释义和词性,且对词组未标出词性。

前言
Unit 1 Plant and Disease 1
Unit 2 Plant Disease Management 6
Unit 3 An Arms Race between Host and Pathogen in Genes 14
Unit 4 Root-Knot Nematode Parasitism and Host Response 20
Unit 5 Tomato Spotted Wilt 27
Unit 6 Crown Gall 33
Unit 7 Wheat Rusts 40
Unit 8 Smut Diseases of Cereal Crops 51
Unit 9 Wheat Take-all 60
Unit 10 Apple Scab 66
Unit 11 Introduction to Insect 72
Unit 12 Wheat Aphid 83
Unit 13 European Corn Borer 88
Unit 14 Insect Pests on Tree Fruits 93
Unit 15 Insect Pest on Cotton 99
Unit 16 Enhancing Insect Resistance in Rice through Biotechnology 106
Unit 17 Insect Pests of Sugarcane 113
Unit 18 Insect Pests of Cruciferous Crops 120
Unit 19 Stored Product Pest Insects 128
Unit 20 The Role of Pesticides in Agricultural Crop Protection 136
Unit 21 Working towards More Efficient Application of Pesticides 141
Unit 22 Biodegradation of Pesticides 147
Unit 23 Classical Biological Control of Weeds in Europe 154
Unit 24 Trichoderma: a Biocontrol Agent 163
Unit 25 Biological Control of Insect Pests 169
Unit 26 Why Study Rodent Populations? 177
Unit 27 Insect Pest Management in Potatoes 182
Unit 28 Integrated Pest Management(IPM): Definition, Historical Development and Implementation and the Other IPM 189
Unit 29 Abstracts in Entomology 198
Unit 30 Abstracts in Plant Pathology 204
Vocabulary 210