PLANT PATHOLOGY

The course will introduce final year undergraduate BSc agriculture Crop Science Option students to concepts and principles of disease management and introduction to advances in plant pathology and crop protection in general. Areas to be covered include a recapitulation of major tropical plant pathogenic organisms and disease development (pathogenesis).                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        objectives:

• To equip students with knowledge and skills to develop and implement disease management strategies for crop plants cultivated in Uganda and Tropics