Talk:Plant pathology

Wiki Education assignment: BioEE1610 WIM

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Wiki Education assignment: Plant Ecology Winter 2023

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 January 2023 and 10 April 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): IAMPLANTMAN, C-ferns1202 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by IAMPLANTMAN (talk) 05:50, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Human element to epidemiology

Various sources suggest humans play a part in the spread of invasive plant pathogens around the world; some examples:

• Tracing the role of human civilization in the globalization of plant pathogens (The ISME Journal)
• Impacts of climate change on plant diseases—opinions and trends (European Journal of Plant Pathology)
• Geographic distribution of plant pathogens in response to climate change (Plant Pathology)

But the epidemiology section is mostly about a "disease triangle" and has no obvious place to insert a couple sentences. I kinda want to just start the process of replacing it with properly sourced stuff, but that would leave an even more unbalanced section and trying to write a full section from scratch is beyond me. It seems to me this should ideally be mentioned in the article, though. 92.30.149.54 (talk) 20:42, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes. We actually have two subjects conflated here: Plant pathology, which is the study of plant disease, and Plant disease, which is the thing studied. Compare Biology and Life, or Zoology and Animal: we have a pair of articles in each case. You want to add a bit to the Epidemics section of Plant diseases, not to Epidemiology in Plant Pathology. Only problem is, they don't exist. We need to create them. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:13, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

<nods> I was looking at some of the redirects here earlier; plant disease, plant pathogen, and a host of others have redirected here for years which struck me as messy. 92.30.149.54 (talk) 21:54, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

OK, I've done the split. Undoubtedly much to do but things should now be a lot less of a muddle. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:57, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Great! I'm a little under the weather but will try and add something to the plant disease article about human elements tonight or tomorrow. For now, I'm going to try and figure out which redirects should go to which one. Oh, it also occurs to me that currently we have nothing about abiotic plant disease... Will look for that sometime too. Thanks. I did take a look at your contribs/userpage and admit to being in awe of all you do here. 92.30.149.54 (talk) 17:24, 27 December 2023 (UTC)