It is aimed to introduce the abiotic and biotic factors that are effective in the emergence of fungal plant diseases in the biosphere and in our immediate environment, the important fungal diseases seen in industry, cereals, legumes and ornamental plants, and vegetable and fruit trees in terms of their symptomatological, biological and microscopic characteristics and to teach the ways of their control.

The general characteristics of fungi, fungal nutrition, growth and reproduction, certain taxonomic categories that contain plant pathogenic fungi