The Global Danger Posed by Plant Disease: The Underestimated Threat

Walters, Dale: - "Dale Walters is Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC). Before Dale retired in 2016, he was leader of the Crop Protection research team at SRUC's campus in Edinburgh. His research interests included induced resistance to plant pathogens, novel approaches to plant disease control, and plant-pathogen interactions. For 35 years he taught Plant Biotic Interactions, Plant Pathology and Plant Responses to Stress, to final year undergraduates.Dale has written two textbooks (Plant Defense: warding off attack by pathogens, herbivores, and parasitic plants and Physiological Responses of Plants to Attack ) and edited three others (Induced Resistance for Plant Defense, Disease Control in Crops, and Molecular Biology in Crop Protection). He has also written two popular science books - Fortress Plant: how to survive when everything wants to eat you, published by Oxford University Press in 2017, and Chocolate Crisis: Climate Change and Other Threats to the Future of Cacao, which was published by University Press of Florida in 2021."