Prologue
1 WHAT DID WILLIE WANT?
Bulb trade and bulb-growing: Ernst Krelage
Research on plant diseases: Hugo de Vries
2 PHYTOPATHOLOGY: A PRIVATE OR A PUBLIC INSTITUTE?
A private initiative
A service for agriculturalists
Trojan horse
A public concern
Two phytopathology institutes
3 THE LADY FROM ROEMER VISSCHERSTRAAT
A new direction
Fungus lady
Prospects of a professorship
4 ‘OUT IN BAARN’
Diseased elms
In splendid isolation
‘Some gnashing of teeth on both sides’
Professor in Amsterdam
5 STURM UND DRANG
The growth of phytopathology
Disease as a process
Elm disease
Poplar canker
Antagonism research
The Phytopathology Laboratory in wartime
6 ‘TOIL AND MOIL’
Science of dynamic equilibrium
The demands of education and research
Fundamental research
A changing world
7 TRIANGULAR RELATIONS
Having your cake and eating it. . . and eating it again!
Ecologically-oriented phytopathological research
Physiologically-oriented phytopatholocial research
Virologically-oriented phytopathological research
8 CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME
‘Can those things fly?’
Mutually enhancing effects
Up against the wall
‘Too much’
A final word
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Table of terms and abbreviations
Bibliography
Appendix
Index