| Department of Ecology
50 % Department of Plant Biology 50 % | |||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | |||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1 semester | ||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 9 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | Joint BSc and MSc The course takes place only in November and December | ||||||||||||||||
| Examination | evaluation of project report Aid allowed Description of Examination: 13-point scale, internal examiner Project report counts 50% of the final grade. Student seminars on obligatory subjects count 25% of the final grade. Student seminars on project subjects count 25% of the final grade. | ||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures and colloquia. | ||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | E7, fall outside schedule | ||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | Land Resources and Crop Production A, Basic Plant Pathology, Agricultural, Horticultural or Forest Zoology | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. A thorough knowledge of the biology and ecology of major pests and diseases, of tropical and subtropical cropping systems. 2. A detailed understanding of the possibilities of prevention and control of those pests and diseases within a third world frame, with particular reference to the continuum from self supply to export marketing. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||
| The course will deal with problems related to diseases, insects and other pests in different cropping systems. These will include e.g. staple crops, e.g. cereals and root crops, or other crops for local marketing. e.g. vegetables. Major export food and fibre crops are also included. A focus will be the growth potential for the insects, other pests and diseases including survival, establishing (e.g. biology of the infection phase) and dispersal in time and space. The course will also emphasise the preventing and controlling measures: Quarantine, resistant plant varieties, biological and chemical control, integrated strategies and agro forestry. After passing the course the student will be capable of producing suggestions for mainline strategies for plant protection and of evaluating such suggestions. Yield losses, increased perish ability and reduced quality due to plant diseases and arthropod pests are among the most serious constraints to the agricultural production in the tropics. Furthermore these problems are local elements of many projects financed by development aid. Accordingly an educational specialisation towards tropical agriculture must include a study of pests and diseases of tropical crops as well as an overview of preventing and controlling measures which are selected with due considerations of third world conditions. | |||||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||
| The teaching is performed by a limited number of lectures and student seminars. Emphasis is placed on the personal activity and accordingly on seminars, which are supported by the supervision of individual students or project groups (such a group may include e.g. two or three people all working on the problems related to rice growing in SE Asia). The teachers give the obligatory subjects for student seminars. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||||
| D.S. Hill & J.M. Waller: Pests and Diseases of Tropical Crops. Vol 1: Principles and Methods of Control 175pp, Vol 2: Field Handbook 432pp. Longman Scientific and Technical, Harlow 1988. A varying selection of journal articles. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||
| Peter Esbjerg, pe@life.ku.dk, Department of Agriculture and Ecology/Section of Zoology, Phone: 35332686 Eigil de Neergaard, edn@life.ku.dk, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology/Plant Pathology Section, Phone: 35333314 | |||||||||||||||||
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