Module Details
| Module Code: |
AGRI8013 |
| Title: |
Crop Pathology
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Long Title:
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Crop Pathology
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| NFQ Level: |
Advanced |
| Valid From: |
Semester 1 - 2018/19 ( September 2018 ) |
| Field of Study: |
6210 - Agriculture
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| Module Description: |
Exploration of crop pathology describing the significant threatening pathogens and pests of agriculture crops in light of modern biotechnological and sustainable used pesticide and other based technologies.
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| Learning Outcomes |
| On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to: |
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Learning Outcome Description |
| LO1 |
Critique the main agricultural crop pathogens and their lifecycles |
| LO2 |
Explore the impact of crop pathogenicity on agronomic and post harvest crop systems |
| LO3 |
Evaluate growing or post harvest crops to discern between the presence of crop disease, pestilence or disorders |
| LO4 |
Debate options of crop protection measures using sustainable use directive criteria regarding pesticides, advanced crop breeding and cultural solutions |
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Module Recommendations
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named MTU module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s).
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Incompatible Modules
These are modules which have learning outcomes that are too similar to the learning outcomes of this module. You may not earn additional credit for the same learning and therefore you may not enrol in this module if you have successfully completed any modules in the incompatible list.
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| No incompatible modules listed |
Co-requisite Modules
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| No Co-requisite modules listed |
Requirements
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is mandatory before enrolment in this module is allowed. You may not enrol on this module if you have not acquired the learning specified in this section.
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| No requirements listed |
| Indicative Content |
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Sustainable Use Directive
Integrated crop management philosophies and methodology. Protection of environment and ecology. European Directive and Irish legal obligations with Sustainable use directive (sud). Records keeping and documentation. Pesticide delivery equipment. Tractor, drone and other spraying equipment and SUD regulations. Pesticide supply regulation. Health & Safety. Pesticide Advisors and extension, Pesticide Distributors, Professional Users/Sprayer Operators and Inspectors of Pesticide Application Equipment. Communicating and training operators for SUD compliance.
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Integrated Crop Management
Pest and pathogen resistance build-up.Integration of methodologies in cultivation practices to minimise selected diseases and pests. Biotechnological, cultural, biological and chemical control. Quarantine. Host plant resistance. Acceptable pest levels. Prevention. Monitoring. Mechanical control. Responsible pesticide control. Pest identification, lifecycle knowledge, monitoring, action threshold establishment, economic yield and quality, combinations of control measures, and control evaluation.Organic control regulation. Plant disease forecasting.
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Crop pathogens
Crop epidemiology. Discerning between symptoms and signs. Application of Koch's postulates. Broad and host specific pathogens, Cereal crops Mildews (Powdery and Downy), spots (leaves), rusts, smuts, general crops blight, wilts,cankers, sooty moulds, scabs, galls, cereal, bulb, corm, tuber, flower, fruit, vegetable, stem, leaf and bud rots.. Post harvest disease of agricultural crops.. Virus and virus like diseases, vectors and lifecycle. Pathogenicity recognition. Visual crop problem identification academic resources. Notifiable diseases. Control of environmental conditions to control disease.
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Crop pestilence
Pests of forage grasses, cereals, Brassica, potato and other field crops: Slugs and snails; Aphids; Nematodes, Eelworms, Globodera, Ditylenchus, Aphelenchoides, Meloidogyne, Heterodera; Thrips (Thrips, Kathothrips, Heliothrips; Caterpillars; Mealybugs (Pseuadococcus, Trionymus); Mites (Tetranychus, Steneotarsonemus, Cecidophyopsis, Rhizoglyphus, Birds; mammals; sawfly (Hoplocampa, Nematus); Capsid bugs (Calocoris); Psyllids (Psylla); Scale insects (Pulvinaria, Chionapsis).
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Pesticides
Fungicides groups. Hygene, disinfection, prophylaxis, chemotherapy. Protectant, preventative or contact fungicides (Chlorobenzenes, Pthalonitriles, Dithiocarbamates, Organotin, Sulphur). Eradicant, curative or systemic fungicides and insecticides (MBC's, DMI group, Morpholine group, Organophosphates and phosphonates, Dicarboximides, Phenylamides). Safe fungicide and insecticide use. Herbicides groups. Contact, systemic, selective, per-emergence, post-emergence, organic industry herbicides. FRAC. Sustainable use directive best practice of use of pesticides.
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Crop genetics for resistance
Crop traits and mechanisms conferring resistance to pathogens and pests of grasses, cereals and other agricultural crops. Induced resistance. Integrated crop biotechnological breeding and disease/ pestilence control. Programmed cell death mechanisms. Solid resistance. Systemic aquired resistance. Advanced agricultural crop resistance case examples.
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Module Content & Assessment
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| Assessment Breakdown | % |
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| Coursework | 100.00% |
Assessments
| No End of Module Formal Examination |
| Reassessment Requirement |
Repeat examination
Reassessment of this module will consist of a repeat examination. It is possible that there will also be a requirement to be reassessed in a coursework element.
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The University reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment
Module Workload
| Workload: Full Time |
| Workload Type |
Contact Type |
Workload Description |
Frequency |
Average Weekly Learner Workload |
Hours |
| Lecture |
Contact |
Knowledge of agricultural crop pathogenicity and modern sustainable control measures |
Every Week |
3.00 |
3 |
| Lab |
Contact |
Visit to commercial or research crop pathology laboratory or field site and/ or perform lab or field pathology investigations |
Every Month |
1.00 |
4 |
| Independent & Directed Learning (Non-contact) |
Non Contact |
Review current peer reviewed publications and visual media on crop disease |
Every Week |
3.00 |
3 |
| Total Hours |
10.00 |
| Total Weekly Learner Workload |
7.00 |
| Total Weekly Contact Hours |
4.00 |
| This module has no Part Time workload. |
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Module Resources
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| Recommended Book Resources |
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Punja, Z.K; de Boer, S; Sanfacon, H I. (2007), Biotechnology and plant disease management, CABI, [ISBN: 1845932889].
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S Whithaus and L Blecker. (2014), The Safe and Effective Use of Pesticides, 3rd. Univ of California - Agriculture & Natural Resources;, [ISBN: 1601078951].
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George Agrios. (2005), Plant Pathology, 5th. Academic Press, USA, [ISBN: 9780080473789].
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Weintraub, P G. (2009), Phytoplasmas: genomes, plant hosts and vectors, CABI, p.347, [ISBN: 1845935306].
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Waller, J M. (2001), Plant pathologist's pocketbook, CABI, [ISBN: 0-85199-458-1].
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Barker, G M. (2002), Molluscs as Crop Pests, [ISBN: 978-0-85199-3].
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Ebbels, D L. (2003), Principles of plant health and quarantine, CABI, [ISBN: 0851996809].
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P. Vidhyasekaran. (2004), Concise encyclopedia of plant pathology, Food Products Press, New York, USA, [ISBN: 1560229438].
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John Leslie and Antonio Logrieco. (2014), Mycotoxin Reduction in Grain Chains, Wiley-Blackwell, [ISBN: 0813820839].
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Y. R. Mehta. (2014), Wheat Diseases and Their Management, Springer International Publishing, [ISBN: 978-3-319-064].
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Sambasivam Periyannan. (2017), Wheat Rust Disease Methods and Protocols, [ISBN: 9781493972487].
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| Other Resources |
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Website, American Phytopathological Society,
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Website, DAFM. Pesticides Book,
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