APS 2008 Best-Selling Book

Authors Mannon Gallegly (left) and Chuan Hong
at the APS Press book-signing event at the
2008 APS Centennial Meeting in Minneapolis.

Mannon E. Gallegly of West Virginia University and Chuan Hong, associate professor, PPWS, authored one of APS's 2008 best-selling books: Phytophthora: Identifying Species by Morphology and DNA Fingerprints. The genus Phytophthora is one of the most important groups of plant pathogens and a difficult group, taxonomically. When the last taxonomic key was published in 1990, there were only about 50 identifed species; now that species number is approaching 100. This book integrates classical morphological methods with a DNA fingerprinting technique to allow speedy and confident identification of the many Phytophthora species.