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 206-102 Plant Health

Availability

Burnley campus.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Mr John Brereton

Prerequisites

202-103 Biology for Land and Food Resources.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

36 hrs lectures and 24 hrs practicals

Subject Description

The content includes:

  • factors affecting the health of plants, impact of stress on plants and methods of diagnosis;

  • the concept of plant disease nature and cause;

  • understanding of the disease cycle, environmental factors influencing disease, the classification and recognition of plant disease causing organisms and plant affecting insects and related pests;

  • identification of selected symptoms and signs of disease/pests affecting horticultural crops and plants in the urban environment;

  • and selection of control measures for a range of pest and disease problems, integrated pest and disease management, plant quarantine and disease resistance management.

Assessment

One 2-hour examination (50%), one practical examination 2 hours (30%), one 2500-word assignment (20%).

Recommended Texts
  • C J Alexopolous, C W Mims and M Blackwell, Introductory Mycology (4th ed). John Wiley and Sons, 1996.
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