Phytopathology

LECTURES

1. Purpose, importance and historical review of Phytopathology

2. The Concept of Disease

3.Symptoms of Sick Plants

4. Fungi, Bacteria, Viruses

5. Basic knowledge of Phytopathological Mycology

6. Basic knowledge of Phytopathological Bacteriology

7. Basic knowledge about Phytoplasmas and Spiroplasmas

8. Basic knowledge of Phytopathological Virology

9. Basic knowledge about plant species

10. Phanerogam Parasites of plants. Non-Parasitic Diseases

11. The Tetrahedron of Disease. Monocyclic & Polycyclic Diseases

12. Principles and Diagnostic Methods of Plant Diseases

13. Principles and Methods of Treating Plant Diseases

LABORATORY

Training in the basic principles of studying plant diseases. Stereoscopic and microscopic observation, identification and classification of the main phytopathogenic fungi belonging to the Oomycetes, Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes and Adilomycetes. Description and microscopic observation of the mycelial structures (sclerotia, rhizomorphs, mycelial plates), specialized organs (retention plates, mycelia, rhizoids) and primitive and intrinsic reproductive organs of fungi. Discrimination and recognition of symptoms, signs and phytopathogenic causes of important plant diseases (downy mildew, powdery mildew, rusts, carbonization, adromycosis, etc.). Observation and processing of fresh samples from plants with fungal, bacteriological, virological and non-parasitic diseases.