Studying seed pathology, its history and development, methods of isolation and identification of different pathogens transmitted on or inside seeds, methods of transmission of seed pathogens, classification of seed-borne pathogens and their diseases, relationships between different organisms transmitted seed diseases, mechanism of transmission of pathogens from different seed parts of a plant , farm management and food security, effect of various environmental factors on occurrence of epidemics of seed-borne pathogens, pathological problems of seed storage, early prediction of seed diseases, methods of controlling seed diseases,.