PLANT DISEASE MANAGEMENT

BOT 552

Winter 2008

	Lecture	Lecturer	Discussion/Critique/Presentations
Week 1
1/7	Principles of disease control and IPM	Ingham
1/9	Concepts of crop yield and damage functions	Ingham
1/11	Disease measurement and sampling	Ingham	Quality issues in disease management recommendations
Week 2
1/14	Disease epidemiology: temporal processes	Mundt
1/16	Disease epidemiology: temporal processes	Mundt
1/18	Disease epidemiology: spatial processes	Mundt	Work on website reviews
1/21	Martin Luther King Day - No Classes
1/23	Disease warning systems	Pscheidt
1/25	Disease warning systems article	Johnson	Website reviews
Week 4
1/28	Disease warning systems	Pfender
1/30	Cultural contol: soil borne pathogens handout	Ingham
2/1	Cultural control: foliar pathogens	Johnson	Website reviews
Week 5
2/4	Chemical control: foliar fungicides	Johnson
2/6	Chemical control: pathogen resistance	Johnson
2/8	Chemical control: soil fumigants handout	Ingham	Midterm - oral exam - group format
Week 6
2/11	Chemical control: application technologies	Hamm
2/13	Biological control: dose response relationships	Johnson
2/15	Biological control: mechanisms of suppression/ reading list	Loper	Disease Lesson Presentations
Week 7
2/18	Regulatory disease management	Stone
2/20	Precision agriculture	Righetti
2/22	EPA Process of regulation	Pfleeger	Disease Lesson Presentations
Week 8
2/25	Host resistance	Mundt
2/27	Host resistance	Mundt
2/29	Management of host resistance	Mundt	Disease Lesson Presentations
Week 9
3/3	Management of host resistance	Mundt
3/5	Management of postharvest diseases	Sugar
3/7	Transgenic approaches to host resistance	Dolja	Disease Lesson Presentations Class review if time
Week 10
3/10	Management of soilborne cereal diseases	Smiley
3/12	Management of forest disease complexes	Hansen
Monday 3/10 & Tuesday 3/11	Final: Oral Exams - Individual Format

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