Information Package / Course Catalogue - Adnan Menderes University

General Information Unit Staff Academic Information Programme Outcomes Course Structure Diagram Contact Information

Person Responsible for Information Package

Prof. Oğuz DOLGUN

Prof. Özgür GÜÇLÜ

Ins. Muammer ERDEN

Lec. Ali ERKUL

Lec. Hüseyin YERLİKAYA

Lec. Şebnem Nalan AKAROĞLU

Plant Mycology

Course Code	: BKR115
Course Type	: Area Elective
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

It is aimed to introduce the abiotic and biotic factors that are effective in the emergence of fungal plant diseases in the biosphere and in our immediate environment, the important fungal diseases seen in industry, cereals, legumes and ornamental plants, and vegetable and fruit trees in terms of their symptomatological, biological and microscopic characteristics and to teach the ways of their control.

Course Content

The general characteristics of fungi, fungal nutrition, growth and reproduction, certain taxonomic categories that contain plant pathogenic fungi

Name of Lecturer(s)

Prof. Deniz ALIÇ URAL

Learning Outcomes

1.	To be able to main characteristics of fungi distinguishing them from other groups of microorganism.
2.	To be able to understand their importance in many relations with human life.
3.	To be able to gain the basic information on reproductive structures which are using to identification fungi.
4.	To be able to comprehend the differences in phenotypic characters that are essential for fungal taxonomy.
5.	To be able to learn life cycles of important plant pathogenic Oomycetes, Ascomycetes, rust fungi.

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Course notes of Lecturers
2.	Presentations and Lecture Notes Compiled From Different Sources

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

Overview of the fungal realm

Week 2 - Theoretical

Fungal organism biology I

Week 3 - Theoretical

Fungal organism biology II

Week 4 - Theoretical

Fungal plant pathogens I

Week 5 - Theoretical

Fungal plant pathogens II

Week 6 - Theoretical

Fungal plant pathogens III

Week 7 - Theoretical

Fungal plant pathogens and hosts

Week 8 - Theoretical

Important fungal plant pathogens in the world

Week 9 - Theoretical

Common fungal plant pathogens in our region

Week 10 - Theoretical

Fungal plant pathogens important in agricultural economics I

Week 11 - Theoretical

Fungal plant pathogens important in agricultural economics II

Week 12 - Theoretical

Ecology and phenology of fungal plant pathogens

Week 13 - Theoretical

Prevention measures from fungal plant pathogens

Week 14 - Theoretical

Ways to control fungal plant pathogens

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Midterm Examination	1	%40
Final Examination	1	%70

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	14	0	2	28
Midterm Examination	1	10	1	11
Final Examination	1	10	1	11
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)				50

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PÇ-1	PÇ-2	PÇ-3	PÇ-4	PÇ-5	PÇ-6	PÇ-7	PÇ-8	PÇ-9	PÇ-10
OÇ-1	5	4	4	4	4	3				3
OÇ-2	5	4	4	4	4	3				3
OÇ-3	5		5			3				4
OÇ-4	5		5							3
OÇ-5	5	4	4	3		4				3