May be repeated for credit. Timely topics in horticultural science. May be repeated for a total of four credits, as topics and instructors vary. Current trends, developments and techniques in horticultural research. BOT 823 preferred.
Students develop research objectives, procedures, and collect data.
A written report will include interpretation of results. Interrelationships between fungi, nematodes, bacteria, viruses, and mycoplasmas as causal agents of plant diseases, their hosts, and the environment. Diseases caused by abiotic factors, symptom development, diagnosis, economics, control, and relationship of plant diseases to human welfare will be studied using examples of economically important diseases. The nature, development, and control of plant diseases caused by bacteria. Taxonomic considerations, host-parasite relations and techniques used in isolating, identifying, and preserving bacterial plant pathogens.