PLANT-BACTERIAL INTERACTIONS

PLPATH 315

Explore plant associated microbial communities (the plant microbiome), methods used to study them, and how we can use them to improve plant and ecosystem health in the face of challenges to agricultural and natural systems. Examples will be drawn from annual crop, grassland, and forested ecosystems. Use current molecular, bioinformatic, and statistical approaches to characterize rhizosphere microbiomes from samples collected as part of on-going research projects.

BOTANY/PLPATH 123

Explores the interaction between society and plant-associated microbes. Topics include: the Irish potato famine, pesticides in current agriculture, role of economics and consumer preference in crop disease management and the release of genetically engineered organisms.

PLPATH 923

Seminar series on topics related to plant pathology

PLPATH 602

Environmental factors in the development and spread of diseases, pathogen variability, genetics of disease resistance, and principles of disease control.

BOTANY/ENTOM/PLPATH 505

Molecular and ecological aspects of the interactions between plants and microorganisms. Explores many of the themes, from genetic to integrative, of modern biology, and illustrates how study of plant-microbe interactions contributes to understanding of fundamental plant science.