CONTENTS: MICROBIOLOGY: 1. Introduction; 2. Microscopy, Sterilisation, Growth Measurement and Culture Methods; 3. Structure of Microorganisms: Two Basic Cell Types; 4.  Microbial  Nutrition  and Growth;  5. Microbial  Metabolism;  6. Microbial Genetics; 7. Control of Microbial Growth; 8. The Microbial World: Diversity,  Status  and  Classification; 9. Acellular Microorganisms: Viruses, Virusoids, Viroids and Prions; 10. Microbiology  of  Air  (Aeromicrobiology); 11. Microbiology of Water; 12. Soil Microbiology; 13. Microbiology of Extreme Environments; 14. Microbial Bioremediation of Polluted Environments; 15. Microbiology of Solid Waste, Sewage and Industrial Wastes; 16. Microbe Plant Associations : Phytosphere; 17. Microbial Biofertilisers and  Biopesticides;18. Microbial  Biodeterioration of  Agricultural  Produce and  Pesticides 19. Microbiology of Foods, Milk and Dairy Products; 20. Industrial Microbiology; 21. Biohydrometallurgy : Bioleaching and Biomining; 22. Infection and Disease; 23. General  and  Specific  (Immune)  Resistance;  24.  Immunity  and  Serology; 25. Immune Disorders;  26. Bacterial Human Diseases; 27. Viral Human Diseases 28. Human Diseases Caused by Protozoa, Fungi  and Helminths;  Index 

Plant Pathology: 1. Introduction; 2. Host-Parasite Interactions : Mechanisms of Attack and Defense; 3. Genetics of Disease Resistance; 4. Environment and Disease : Plant Disease Epidemiology; 5. Methods of  Plant Diseases Control (Plant  Disease  Management); 6.Biopesticides  in  Plant  Protection; 7.  Biotechnology and Plant  Pathology; 8.  Fungal  Plant  Diseases;  9. Bacterial  Plant  Diseases; 10. Viral  and  Nematodal  Plant  Diseases; Index