This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory Residential School.
Course specific lectures and practical exercises in disease identification and laboratory techniques designed to supplement and extend the theoretical aspects of this subject.
This subject will introduce you to the study of plant pathogens and aims to give you skills in the recognition and assessment of diseases of plants. Students will draw on skills already developed in other subjects and will integrate with agronomic type subjects studied concurrently. This subject as an integrative one that develops skills that you will use beyond your University career and which will pique your interest in plant pathology as an area of research.
* Offering has a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
HD/FL
One session
School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences
BIO118 or MCR101
- disease recognition and diagnosis
- biology of organisms associated with plant diseases
- epidiemiology of plant diseases
- crop loss assessment
- principles of disease control and management
- integrated pest management
The following table summarises the assessment tasks for the online offering of PSC371 in Session 2 2020. Please note this is a guide only. Assessment tasks are regularly updated and can also differ to suit the mode of study (online or on campus).
This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory Residential School.
Course specific lectures and practical exercises in disease identification and laboratory techniques designed to supplement and extend the theoretical aspects of this subject.
Travel to and accommodation at a CSU campus is required for distance education students attending the compulsory residential school. All students are required to have a lab coat, safety glasses and covered footwear for lab based practicals.
The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: May 2021. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.