Information Package / Course Catalogue
Mushroom Diseases and Pests
Course Code: ZBK531
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 6
Objectives of the Course

This course, which includes basic information about cultivation mushroom cultivation, mainly includes diseases caused by various pathogens in cultured fungi and various pests, especially mites and fungal flies.

Course Content

In this context, particular disease symptoms affecting Turkey in mushroom production negatively on the economic level, factors, diseases circles and war roads, the pests definitions, biology, damage and control are given under the name of titles.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
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Recommended or Required Reading
1.Fletcher, J.F., P.F. White and R.H. Gaze, 1989. Mushrooms: Pest and Disease control. Atheanaeum Pres, Newcastle upon Tyne. 173 s.
2.Günay A.,1995. Mantar Yetiştiriciliği. İlke Kitapevi. 477 s.
3.Bora T., S., Toros ve H. Özaktan, 1996. Kültür Mantarı: Hastalıkları, Zararları ve Savaşımı. AFA Matbaacılık, İstanbul. 137 s.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Introduction (Importance of mushroom, cultivated mushroom production in the world and in Turkey and problems)
Week 2 - Theoretical
Isolation of culture mushroom from spore, preparation of seed micelle, production and harvesting
Week 3 - Theoretical
Hygiene in production and harvest
Week 4 - Theoretical
Non-parasitic diseases
Week 5 - Theoretical
Virutic diseases and control
Week 6 - Theoretical
Bacterial diseases and their struggle
Week 7 - Theoretical
Fungal diseases and their struggle
Week 8 - Theoretical
fungal diseases and their struggle
Week 9 - Theoretical
Fungal diseases and their struggle
Week 10 - Theoretical
Fungal diseases and their struggle
Week 11 - Theoretical
Mushroom pests: Mushroom flies (Sciaridae, Phoridae, Cecidomiidae)
Week 12 - Theoretical
Mushroom pests: Mushroom flies (Sciaridae, Phoridae, Cecidomiidae)
Week 13 - Theoretical
Mushroom pests: Mites (Tarsonemidae, Acaridae, Pyemotidae, Histiomidae)
Week 14 - Theoretical
Mushroom pests: Mushroom nematodes and other pests (Collembola, Myriapoda, Slugs and Snails, Mice and Rats)
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%30
Final Examination1%70
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory142256
Lecture - Practice143270
Midterm Examination110111
Final Examination112113
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)150
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
OÇ-1
5
2
1
OÇ-2
3
3
OÇ-3
1
5
OÇ-4
2
2
4
2
OÇ-5
3
5
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026