AGR514: Crop Disease Management / Faculty of Plantation and Agrotechnology

This course will provide students with plant pathology principles and procedures to understand about diseases in plantation crops, characteristics of organisms that cause diseases, how diseases interact with hosts and the environment and also available methods for controlling or managing diseases in plantation crop such as oil palm, rubber and paddy. Students also will have opportunity to conduct experiments in the laboratory to improve practical skills and understanding about the Koch’s postulate procedures, disease diagnosis on fresh infected plant samples, antagonistic activity of pathogens and antagonists and other relevant practices that related to the disease management in plantation crops.