Information Package / Course Catalogue
Warehouse Diseases and Pests
Course Code: BKR106
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

To describe insect species which are harmful on stored products and to learn control methods with these pests. Teaching the plant diseases in storage and packing house and their control methods.

Course Content

Symptoms, diagnosis and control methods of plant diseases in the storage and packing house. The importance of postharvest diseases, from pre-harvest storage diseases, post-harvest storage diseases borne, diseases, struggle warehouse. The importance of pests in stored products, biology, and damage types. Loss for the product, they must be applied according to the type of stored product pest control methods in classification will be discussed.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Özgür GÜÇLÜ
Learning Outcomes
1.To be able to learn economic importance of postharvest diseases
2.To be able to learn important postharvest diseases
3.To be able to describe species of stored products pests.
4.To be able to learn damage type of pests on products and which pest species is detrimental on which stored products.
5.To be able to learn control methods against different stored products pests.
6.To be able to learn to control against to postharvest pathogens
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Course notes of Lecturers
2.Presentations and Lecture Notes Compiled From Different Sources
3.Depolanmış ürün Zararlıları (Prof. Dr Erol YILDIRIM, Prof. Dr. Hikmet ÖZBEK, Prof. Dr. İrfan ARSLAN).
4.Zirai Mücadele Teknik Talimatları (Dr. Mete AYDEMİR)
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
General information about postharvest pathogens and abiotic disease factors
Week 2 - Theoretical
Economic importance of postharvest diseases
Week 3 - Theoretical
Origin of the postharvest diseases and germination of spores
Week 4 - Theoretical
Host-Pathogens interactions in postharvest stage
Week 5 - Theoretical
Factors affecting the development of the postharvest diseases
Week 6 - Theoretical
Mechanism of postharvest pathogens attack
Week 7 - Theoretical
Host resistance against to postharvest diseases
Week 8 - Theoretical
Introduction, general information about the stored product pests, cockroaches Thysanura species and related issues are discussed.
Week 9 - Theoretical
Book bits, Ekin Black beetle, Leather insects examined. Carpet beetles, beetle crop land, crop Humpback bit, Cigarette beetle pests are discussed.
Week 10 - Theoretical
Bread beetle, insect Blade, Red, Small Gravel bits, flour ayrıntılanır established pests.
Week 11 - Theoretical
Crushing bits, bits of flour, horned beetle, tartness insects examined. Weevil, rice bits, bits of corn pests are discussed.
Week 12 - Theoretical
Barley moth, warehouse moth attachment, clothes moth, moth pests , wool moths, mite species, mice and rats
Week 13 - Theoretical
Postharvest diseases and control methods
Week 14 - Theoretical
Factors affecting the development of post-harvest diseases, post-harvest post-harvest diseases of the mechanism of resistance of pathogens to attack the mechanisms of host resistance against the host
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%70
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Lecture - Practice1202
Assignment25010
Midterm Examination19110
Final Examination110111
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)75
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
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
OÇ-2
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
OÇ-3
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
OÇ-4
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
OÇ-5
3
3
3
4
3
2
4
OÇ-6
4
4
4
4
3
2
4
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026