PLP4024 : Seed Pathology

Department

Department of Gardening

Academic Program

Master in Horticulture

Type

Elective

Credits

04

Prerequisite

Overview

Studying seed pathology, its history and development, methods of isolation and identification of different pathogens transmitted on or inside seeds, methods of transmission of seed pathogens, classification of seed-borne pathogens and their diseases, relationships between different organisms transmitted seed diseases, mechanism of transmission of pathogens from different seed parts of a plant , farm management and food security, effect of various environmental factors on occurrence of epidemics of seed-borne pathogens, pathological problems of seed storage, early prediction of seed diseases, methods of controlling seed diseases,.