Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers |
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751-4501-01L | Phytomedicine: Plant Pathology | 1 credit | 1V | U. Merz |
Abstract | Plant Pathology topics: plant diseases in agroecosystems, categories of pathogens, pathogen life histories, pathogen attack and plant defense, gene-for-gene systems, and disease control strategies. |
Objective | Gain an understanding of the causes and consequences of plant diseases in agroecosystems. |
Content | Plant pathology and human affairs, A short history of plant pathology. Koch’s Postulates. Abiotic diseases. Categories of infectious agents. Pathogen life cycles and disease cycles. Disease development. Plant resistance mechanisms. Genetics of plant resistance. Epidemiology and disease forecasting. Control strategies: exclusion and quarantines, sanitation, crop rotation, biocontrol, genetic resistance. Fungicides and risk assessment. Genetic engineering of resistance. Integrated management strategies. |
Lecture notes | Lecture notes will be available for purchase at the cost of reproduction. |
Literature | Agrios, G.N. 2005. Plant Pathology, 5. Edition, Academic Press, Inc.
Lucas, J.A. 1998. Plant Pathology and Plant Pathogens. 3. Edition, Blackwell Science. pp. 274 |
751-4506-00L | Plant Pathology III | 2 credits | 2G | U. Merz,
M. Maurhofer Bringolf |
Abstract | Identification based on host, symptoms and micro-morphology, completed with life cycles and related control measures of the most important fungal diseases and their causal pathogens of annual and perennial crops with agricultural significance. |
Objective | The students will learn and train preparation skills for microscopy, aquire knowledge of selected diseases (identification, biology of pathogen, epidemiology) and understand the corresponding integrated control measures practiced in Swiss agriculture. |
Content | The course will partly be an e-learning excercise (with computers). |
Lecture notes | A script will be used on annual and perennial crops and their most important diseases. It will be updated stepwise |
Prerequisites / Notice | The course will be in German (spec. nomenclature) |