The principles of plant disease management are based on the following tactics¹²³: 1. **Avoidance of the Pathogen**: This includes disease management tactics applied before infection, such as geographical area selection, planting time, and disease-escaping varieties. 2. **Exclusion of the Pathogen**: This means preventing the entrance and establishment of pathogens in uninfected crops in a particular area. It can be achieved using certified seed or plants, sorting bulbs before planting, discarding any that are doubtful, possibly treating seeds, tubers or corms before they are planted and most importantly refusing obviously diseased specimens from dealers. 3. **Reduction or Eradication of Pathogen Inoculum**: This involves reducing or eradicating pathogen inoculum by crop rotation, sanitation, roguing, soil treatment, heat and chemical treatment to diseased plant material, use of antagonists. 4. **Resistance (Immunization) to Pathogen**: This involves using resistant varieties and induced systemic resistance. 5. **Integrated Approach**: This involves combining all the above tactics to manage plant diseases. I hope this helps! Source: Conversation with Bing, 28/7/2023 (1) Plant Disease Management: Principles and Economics | Botany. https://www.botanylibrary.com/plant-diseases-2/plant-disease-management-principles-and-economics-botany/15422. (2) PRINCIPLES OF PLANT DISEASE MANAGEMENT - e-Krishi Shiksha. http://ecoursesonline.iasri.res.in/mod/page/view.php?id=11417. (3) General principles of plant diseases management Importance, general .... http://eagri.org/eagri50/PATH171/lec22.pdf. (4) Principles of plant disease management | PPT - SlideShare. https://www.slideshare.net/RanjanKumar44/principles-of-plant-disease-management.