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Course code: RSSN10245o12Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: Principles of Plant Protection
Major: Environmental Protection
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 9 / 18 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Jacek Twardowski, dr inż. Włodzimierz Kita, dr inż. Ewa Tendziagolska, dr inż. Jacek Jackows
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: The course graduate can recognize most important groups of harmful and beneficial insects found in different ecosystems. They can perform diagnostics of the crucial plant diseases and are capable of assessing the risk of the yield loss involved. They know the control measures suitable for disease prevention and pathogen control. The students acquire knowledge of the critical species of annual and perennial segetal weeds, including the principles of weed management in the most important crops. The students also become instructed on the issues of the selection and appropriate application of the chemical and biological pesticides.
Competences: After completion of the course, its graduates easily recognize important harmful and beneficial insects. They swiftly assess their harmfulness and take control decision in a second`s time. They know the most important diseases of plants at a first glance, and can effectively prevent their incidence. The students certainly recognize all the critical species of weeds and know how to control them, conforming to the IPM rules in which they are thoroughlly trained. Graduates of the course are also experts in the selection and appropriate application of the chemical and biological pesticides.
Prerequisites: Botany, Selected aspects of Zoology and Animal Physiology, Plant cultivation
Course content: Insects role in different ecosystems with particular emphasis on agroecosystems. The importance of insects for human life. Biotic and abiotic factors affecting insect populations. Harmful and beneficial insect species of most important arable fields. Available methods to control harmful insects. Monitoring and predicting the abundance of harmful insects. Prevention in plant protection. The economic importance of pathogens, influence of plant protection on the environment, development of pathogenic fungi as dependent on abiotic factors. Review of basic groups of zoocides, fungicides and herbicides, options to reduce pesticide use in crop production Diagnostics of important species of weeds. Methods of weed control.
Recommended literature: 1.Plant pathology. Agrios G.N. Academic Press London, 1999 2.Carlile W.R., 2006. Pesticide selectivity, Health and the Environment. Cambridge Univ Press. 3.Introduction to the study of insects. CBS College Publishing, 1981. 4.Monaco T.J., Weller S.C., Ashton F.M. 2002. Weed science, principles and practices.John Wiley and Sons,inc. 5.Rechcigl J.E., Rechcigl N.A., 2000. Biological and Biotechnological Control of Insect Pests.Lewis Publishers. 6.Stenersen J., 2004. Chemical Pesticides, Mode of Action and Toxicology. CRC Press.
Assessment methods: obligatory exam in writing, after the 4th semester
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