Full name of the course PHYTOPATHOLOGY

Professors

Assistant

1. Knowledge of the most significant diseases of arable, vegetable and fruit plants caused by biotic and
abiotic factors in the agricultural production of our country.
Outcomes of the
learning 2. Knowing the conditions in which they occur

3. Mastering the techniques of protection against plant disease agents

1. Phytopathology - significance and task. Non-parasitic diseases. Parasitic diseases - concept, type and
division.

2. Basic characteristics of pathogens - the cause of plant diseases - phytopathogenic fungi.

3. Phytopathogenic bacteria. Phytopathogenic viruses. Mollicutes and parasitic flowering plants.

4. Pathogenesis, symptomatology, epidemiology.

5. Resistance of plants to pathogens. Biotechnology in crop production. Pathometry. General principles of

controlling plant diseases.

6. Phytopathogenic fungi from the divisions: Plasmodiophoromycota, Oomycota, Chytridiomycota,

Zygomycota.

7. Phytopathogenic fungi from the section: Ascomycotam, class Archiascomycetes, class Ascomycetes.

Course content by 8. The first partial test

the week
9. Phytopathogenic fungi from the section: Ascomycota - A. Pyrenomycetes (Ascomycetes with
perithecia).

10. Phytopathogenic fungi from the division: Ascomycota – B. Loculoascomycetes (Ascomycetes with
apothecia).

11. Phytopathogenic fungi from the section: Ascomycota - C. Discomycetes (Ascomycetes with
apothecia); D. Deutromycetes (Ascomycetes with apothecia).

12. Phytopathogenic fungi from the section: Basidiomycota, order Uredinales.

13. Phytopathogenic bacteria from the genus: Pseudomonas, Xanthomonas, Erwinia, Agrobacterium,
Clavibacter.

14. Viruses of agricultural, vegetable and fruit plant species. Mollicutes and parasitic flowering plants.

15. Second partial test.