Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Course Code | : OT215 |
| Course Type | : Required |
| Couse Group | : Short Cycle (Associate's Degree) |
| Education Language | : Turkish |
| Work Placement | : N/A |
| Theory | : 2 |
| Prt. | : 2 |
| Credit | : 3 |
| Lab | : 0 |
| ECTS | : 3 |
The aims of this course are to introduce diseases that causes significant yield losses on cultivated plants in organic farming, and to teach basic plant disease management methods.
In this course, in the first section, student will learn about general plant pathology including significance of plant pathology, the concept of plant disease, the symptoms of diseases, abiotic diseases, biotic diseases (disease triangle, disease cycle, causal organisms). In the second section, plant disease management methods in organic agriculture will be explained by giving examples.
| Ins. Leyla EKEN |
| 1. | Understands the importance of disease in plant production. |
| 2. | Distinguish between sick and healthy plants and recognize the symptoms of disease. |
| 3. | To describe the environmental conditions causing non infectious diseases |
| 4. | To be able to comprehend how infectious diseases develop and disseminate |
| 5. | To understand how knowledge on disease cycle can contribute to management of diseases |
| 6. | Describe the pathogenic organisms |
| 1. | Plant pathology. Agrios,G.N.,2005. 5 th edition, Elsevier Academic Press,U.S. 948 pp. |
| 2. | Fitopatoloji. Döken, M.T., Demirci, E., Zengin,H., 2011 . Atatürk Üniversitesi, Ziraat Fak. Ofset Tesisi, Erzurum, 8. Baskı, 258 pp. |
| Type of Assessment | Count | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Midterm Examination | 1 | %40 |
| Final Examination | 1 | %60 |
| Activities | Count | Preparation | Time | Total Work Load (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture - Theory | 2 | 10 | 14 | 48 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 15 | 1 | 16 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 16 | 1 | 17 |
| TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) | 81 | |||
PÇ-1 | PÇ-2 | PÇ-3 | PÇ-4 | PÇ-5 | PÇ-6 | PÇ-7 | PÇ-8 | PÇ-9 | PÇ-10 | PÇ-11 | PÇ-12 | PÇ-13 | |
OÇ-1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | ||||||||||
OÇ-2 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||
OÇ-3 | 5 | 4 | |||||||||||
OÇ-4 | 5 | 4 | |||||||||||
OÇ-5 | 5 | 4 | |||||||||||
OÇ-6 | 5 | ||||||||||||