SUBJECT

Title

Microbiology of Plant Diseases I

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

2

Recommended in

Semesters 1-4

Typically offered in

Autumn/Spring semester

Course description

1. Basic terms of plant pathology

2. Infection processes

3. General characterisation of plant viruses

4. Virus vectors, Types of symptoms

5. Possibly control methods of plant viruses

6. Viroids and phytoplasmas

7. General characterisation of plant-bacteria interactions

8. Plant-bacteria interactions at cell and molecular level

9. Classification and characterisation of bacterial diseases of plants

10. General characterisation of plant pathogenic fungi

11. Lower fungi and their importance in plant pathology

12. Ascomycetes and their importance in plant pathology

13. Basidiomycetes and their importance in plant pathology

14. Deuteromycetes their importance in plant pathology

Readings
  • George N. Agrios: Plant Pathology. Third Edition. Academic Press, New York, London, Sydney (1988), pp 776.

  • Hock T, Elstner E. Plant Toxicology. .Marcel Dekker, New York (2004).