Overview
Description
This course will start students’ education in the discipline of Plant pathology. Students will be exposed to fundamental concepts of Plant Pathology, different types of diseases and their causes, how microbes/pathogens attack and invade plants, yield losses, plant defense strategies, and disease management. A historical and modern perspective on several approaches – sustainable, technological, and biotechnological - used by scientists and farmers to prevent and circumvent diseases and losses will be emphasized in this course.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- recall vocabulary words related to the field of plant pathology.
- communicate commons diseases of agricultural and horticultural crops, identify disease symptoms, describe major pathogen groups, and their life cycles.
- define the basics of the host-pathogens interactions.
- understand basic scientific concepts related to genetic engineering technology to understand how its application can be integrated in disease control of commercial plants.
- synthesize scientific literature to outline how past technologies and scientific understanding have shaped Plant Pathology and disease control management through time.