This document discusses plant pathology and the symptoms and economic importance of plant diseases. It begins by defining plant pathology and explaining its objectives, which include studying the causes of diseases, mechanisms of disease development, and plant-pathogen interactions. It then discusses the concept of disease in plants and how diseases can interfere with processes like transpiration and photosynthesis. Economically, diseases can cause significant losses and change cropping systems, trade, and policy. The document concludes by defining and describing various plant disease symptoms, including chlorosis, necrosis, anthracnose, blight, canker, curling, damping off, downy mildew, gall, leaf spot, mosaic, phyllody, powdery mildew, ring spot