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Course code: ROSS10113o14
Semester: 2014/2015 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: Knowledge: Student identifies primary disease units occurring on horticultural plants. Defines their role and impact on yield, its quantity and quality, as well as the ecological impact of pathogens. Indicate methods of horticultural plant protection against diseases as well as methods of reducing populations of pathogenic organisms (R1A_W05, R1A_W06). Skills: Student explains the processes associated with occurrence viruses, bacteria and parasitic fungi. Describes the process of pathogenesis. Applies diagnostic laboratory methods. He can use the scales of disease. He can estimate the amount of losses. He can predict the impact of pathogen-profit horticultural farm (R1A_U05, R1A_U06, R1A_U07).

Competences: In the event of disease the student organizes remedial action. Examines the level of plant disease points to the optimal method of treatment. Uses tools to optimize the chemical methods. Apply alternative methods of protection: biological or agrotechnical (R1A_K05, R1A_K06, R1A_K07).

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 4

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