Diseases of Economic Plants
Covers symptoms, epidemiology, and control of crop plant diseases with emphasis on diagnosis and impacts on Wisconsin cropping systems.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Describe the impact of plant disease on economically important cropping systems in Wisconsin.
Articulate a critical perspective on land use and explain how agriculture impacts human and environmental health.
Develop analytical thinking and communication skills through class readings, activities, and discussion.
Describe the diverse, economic plant industries in Wisconsin and how plant diseases affect them.
Describe the main diseases and their management practices in agronomic and specialty crops, and in turf and ornamental systems.
Apply scientific principles of disease diagnostics and pathogen lifecycles to make disease management decisions.
Acquire new knowledge of insects, weed, nutrient disorders and injury caused by abiotic factors.
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Course map(PL PATH 300 and 332), or graduate/professional standing
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Symptoms, epidemiology and control of diseases of crop plants; emphasis on disease diagnosis.
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Topics
- Crop plant disease symptoms, epidemiology, and control
- Diseases and management in agronomic, specialty, turf, and ornamental systems
- Insects, weeds, nutrient disorders, and abiotic injury
- Land use and agricultural impacts on human and environmental health
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- Disease diagnosis and management decision-making
- Identifying diseases and management practices for agronomic, specialty, turf, and ornamental crops
- Analytical thinking and communication
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