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Course code: ROSS10143o13Semester: 2013/2014 summer
Name: Plant Protection II
Major: Horticulture
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 4
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Krzysztof Matkowski, dr inż. Jacek Jackowski
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: practical ability of recognition most important horticultural plants diseases and methods of their control; The ability methods and agents of plant protection, which are fit to fight against specific pathogens and pests in horticulture
Competences: student can make recognize most important plants diseases and use to methods of their control
Prerequisites: Botany, Biochemistry, Plant Physiology
Course content: Phytopathology is the study of the living entities and the environmental conditions that cause disease in plants; the mechanisms by which these factors produce disease in plants; the interaction between the disease-causing agents and the disease plant; and the methods of preventing disease. Student will learn about the diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, parasitic higher plants, viruses and nematodes. They also study plant disorders caused by the excess, imbalance, or lack of certain physical or chemical factors, such as moisture, temperature and nutrients. Phytopathology may call upon the basic techniques and knowledge of botany, mycology, bacteriology, virology, plant physiology, genetics and many other branches of science. Students will get the knowledge of plant protection methods and treatments and plant protection agents applied in horticulture.
Recommended literature: 1.Plant pathology. Agrios G.N. Academic Press London, 1999
Assessment methods: exam after semester 5
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