Course detail

LFT5880 - Plant Disease Control


Credit hours

In-class work
per week
Practice
per week
Credits
Duration
Total
3
2
8
15 weeks
120 hours

Instructor
Ivan Paulo Bedendo
Lilian Amorim
Luis Eduardo Aranha Camargo

Objective
Provide the students, primarily Master's students, the general principles for disease control and its forms of application categorized under the chemical, genetic, biological, and physical control methods.

Content
The importance of plant diseases in the economic and social context. General principles of control. Estimates of damages. Principles of integrated management of diseases. Chemical control: classification of control chemical agents according to their mode of action. Legislation and registration of pesticides. Fungal resistance to fungicides and fungicide use strategies. Genetic control: horizontal and vertical resistance. The gene-to-gene theory of Flor and the resistance break. Strategies for using vertical genes. Peculiarities of improvements focused on genetic resistance. Biological control with microbial agents. Modulation of the plant defense system with microbial agents. Physical control through regulation. Examples and principles of cultural control. Practical examples of control methods for bacterial, fungal, viral and nematode diseases.

Bibliography
Agrios, G.N. Plant Pathology. Orlando. Academic Press.2005. 5th edition
Amorim, L.; Rezende, J.A.; Bergamin Filho, A.; Manual de Fitopatologia. Vol 1. 2018. Quinta edição
Oliver, R.P.; Hewitt, H.G. Fungicides in Crop Protection, CAB International. 2014
Journal articles including Plant Disease, Phytopathology, Annual Review of Phytopathology, Plant Pathology, Revisão Anual de Doenças de Plantas