| CODE | AGR2552 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Crop Pests and Diseases | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Rural Sciences and Food Systems | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Objectives: To familiarise the students with the principal animal and other organisms causing disease in plants and to know how diseases and epidemics develop in agricultural crops. Contents: General aspects of Crop Pathology; concept of disease in crops; classification of pathogenic organisms; disease development; parasitism and pathogenicity; dissemination of the pathogen; epidemiology. Disease of Maltese crops. Diagnostics; field and laboratory examinations. Reading List: - Agrios, Plant Pathology; Elzinga, Fundamentals of Entomology. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | David Mifsud |
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