PSPP 550 — Plant Disease Control: 4 Credits (4 Lec)
(Sp) Offered every other Spring, odd numbered years. Plant pathogens present major biological constraints in all crop production systems. For their management, we make numerous compromises between disease losses, and management costs in terms of monies, effort, and environmental impacts. In this course, important representative diseases from each disease class will be presented. These will be followed by discussions of the applied research on their control. Following Wednesday’s lectures a one-hour review will be conducted of presented papers including methods, data quality, utility and contextual fit within the body of research on each subject .
Prerequisites: BIOM 421