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This subject will introduce you to the study of plant pathogens and aims to give students 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 students will use beyond their University career and which will pique their interest in plant pathology as an area of research.

• Disease recognition and diagnosis;
• Biology of organisms associated with plant diseases;
• Epidiemiology of plant diseases;
• Crop loss assessment;
• Principles of disease control and management; and 
• Integrated pest management.