Books by Hachiro Oku

This book will be a milestone for the development of harmless control measures for plant diseases. It describes the usual developing procedure employed in the screening of substances that have antifungal activity among the compounds synthesized at random.

Environmental pollution resulting from widespread pesticide application has become a serious worldwide problem. This book addresses this problem by exploring the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of plant pathogenesis and emphasizing the use of 'pest control agents' rather than 'pesticides' for plant disease control.