| Department of Ecology
50 % Department of Plant Biology 50 % | |||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | |||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1 semester | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Course Level | Joint BSc and MSc | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | written examination Aid allowed Description of Examination: 13-point scale, internal examiner Dates of Exam: | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures and theoretical exercises: 1 course module per week | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | E5, fall | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | Basic courses in plant pathology and applied entomology. External students will be individually evaluated to check their prerequisites | ||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||
| The purpose of the course is to give the student a thorough understanding of the principles and strategies of biological control of pests and diseases together with examples of proven and potential applications in agriculture and horticulture. The laboratory course(s) Biological Control of Plant Diseases: Project Course and/or Biological Control of Insects: Laboratory Course may be taken concurrently. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||
| The main elements covered in the course are: Definitions of biological control of pests and diseases of plants and subject terminology. Major groups of organisms used in biological control: their ecologies, life cycles, mechanisms of action etc. Isolation and selection of biological control organisms and their production, formulation and application, Crop management practices including crop rotation etc. that regulate populations of pathogens and pests. Disease suppressive soils, Monitoring populations and activity levels of biological control agents following application to the crop and release into the environment. Aspects of risk assessment of biological control organisms, Legislation. BCA registration. Selected examples of the use of fungal and bacterial antagonists, parasitoids and predators to control pests and diseases in field and glasshouse crops, orchards and forestry. | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| Lectures, tutorials and an excursion. In the lectures, basic principles, strategies and state-of-the-art developments in biological control of pests and diseases are presented. Some lectures are given by external and internal specialists on topics directly related to on-going research projects. At the tutorials selected papers - typically from international scientific journals - are discussed and evaluated. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||
| Litteratur består i kopierede artikler og lignende | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Dan Funck Jensen, dfj@life.ku.dk, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology/Plant Pathology Section, Phone: 35333304 Jørgen Eilenberg, jei@life.ku.dk, Department of Agriculture and Ecology/Section of Zoology, Phone: 35332692 | |||||||||||||||
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