Offered as needed to present materials not normally available in regular course offerings or for offering of new courses on a trial basis. Master's student For students in non thesis master's programs who have completed all other requirements of the degree except preparing for and taking the final master's exam. Master's student Thesis research. PP 504, Consent of Instructor Morphology, anatomy and taxonomy of nematodes with emphasis on identification of important plant-parasitic genera. Exercises include preparation of semipermanent and permanent nematode mounts.
Laboratory exercises, research projects and techniques.
PP 505, BCH 451 or 551 Current status of molecular biology of plant infecting viruses. Recognition, infection, replication, regulation, expression, genome organization, encapsidation, resistance, silencing and transmission. Molecular approaches to virus disease control and development of plant viral vector and expression systems. In-depth study of ecology of soilborne fungal and bacterial pathogens inducing root and wilt diseases in plants. Concepts and principles including but not limited to the rhizosphere, inoculum potential, soil fungistasis, survival, root disease models and biological control.