Information Package / Course Catalogue
Vegetable Diseases
Course Code: BKR201
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 2
Objectives of the Course

The aim of this course is to gain basic information about classification, morphology, ecology and biology of fungi, bacteria and viruses that attack economic vegetable crops. Control of vegetable disease

Course Content

Fungal, bacterial and viral diseases of vegetable crops symptoms, characteristics of disease agents, life cycles, spread and inoculation, control methods and chemicals.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Lec. Hüseyin YERLİKAYA
Learning Outcomes
1.Upon completion of this course, students will have an understanding of classification, morphology, ecology and biology of fungi bacteria and viruses that attack economic vegetable crops, etiology and control of vegetable diseases.
2.To be able to know biochemical and physiological changes in the patient plant
3.To be able to know important vegetable diseases, symptoms, disease cycles and control methods of them in Turkey
4.To be able to know diseases and general control methods of vegetable diseases
5.Gaining the ability to produce solutions to problems that may be encountered in these issues
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Course notes of Lecturers
2.Presentations and Lecture Notes Compiled From Different Sources
3.Zirai Mücadele Teknik Talimatları. Tarım Bakanlığı. Koruma ve Kontrol Genel Müdürlüğü (Cilt-III)
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
The concept of disease in plants and classification of vegetable diseases according to their cause (Fungus, Bacteria, Virus)
Week 2 - Theoretical
Fungal diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: [ Phytophthora capsici, Phytophthora infestans]
Week 3 - Theoretical
Fungal diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: [Alternaria solani, Uromyces appendiculatus, Colletotrichum orbiculare]
Week 4 - Theoretical
Fungal diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: [Erysiphe cichoracearum, Sphaerotheca fuliginea, Pseudoperonospora cubensis]
Week 5 - Theoretical
Fungal diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: [Plasmodiophora brassicae, Synchytrium endobioticum]
Week 6 - Theoretical
Fungal diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: [Pythium spp., Rhizoctonia spp., Fusarium spp., Alternaria spp., Sclerotinia spp., Phytophthora spp.]
Week 7 - Theoretical
Fungal diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: [Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, S. minor, Botrytis cinerea]
Week 8 - Theoretical
Fungal diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: [Septoria apiicola, S. lycopersici, Urocystis cepulae]
Week 9 - Theoretical
Bacterial diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: [Ralstonia solanacearum, Xanthomonas vesicatoria]
Week 10 - Theoretical
Bacterial diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: [Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato, Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis]
Week 11 - Theoretical
Bacterial diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: [Pseudomonas syringae pv. lachrymans, Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora]
Week 12 - Theoretical
Bacterial diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: Stolbur
Week 13 - Theoretical
Viral diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: Tobacco mosaic tobamovirus -TMV
Week 14 - Theoretical
Viral diseases in vegetables, definition, symptoms, economic importance, distribution, hosts and control: Tomato yellow leaf curl bigeminivirus -TYLCV, Potato leafroll polerovirus-PLRV
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%70
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory142028
Assignment2102
Midterm Examination19110
Final Examination19110
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)50
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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PÇ-9
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OÇ-1
5
5
2
4
2
2
4
OÇ-2
5
5
2
3
2
2
3
OÇ-3
4
4
2
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2
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4
4
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2
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OÇ-5
4
4
2
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2
2
2
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2026