BScAgric (Plant Pathology)
in the Crop Production System
(Fields: Crop Production / Crop Protection and Breeding)

Admission requirements
Programme
Modules
Fees
Bursary - 2010 (Application form)


Mushroom hunt for 4th year Plant Pathology students
in Jonkershoek Nature Reserve
(June 2008)

Admission requirements as from 2009

  • A National Senior Certificate (NSC) as certified by Umalusi with an achievement of at least 4 in four designated university entrance subjects.
  • An achievement of at least 50%, calculated in a ratio of 40:60, for the SU Access Tests and the average (excluding Life Orientation) obtained for the NSC.
  • In addition to the above, at minimum:
    - Afrikaans or English (Home Language or First Additional Language) 4
    - Mathematics 4
    - Physical Sciences 4 OR
    - Physical Sciences 3 and Life Sciences 4

For more information regarding admission requirements, contact:
The Faculty Secretary
Faculty of AgriSciences
Stellenbosch University
Private Bag X1
Matieland, 7602
South Africa

Tel: +27 (0)21 808 4833
E-mail: ghgamiet@sun.ac.za

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Programme

First year: Follows the Biological Sciences programme (Faculty of Science)

Second Year: Follows the Crop Production programme
(Study fields: Crop Production / Crop Protection and Breeding) (Faculty of AgriSciences)

Third and Fourth Year: Choose Plant Pathology as major subject:

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Modules

Crop Protection 244 - Introduction to crop protection
The recognition and effects of plant pathogenic organisms and arthropods on crops; the principles of epidemiology; integrated pest management and disease control.
Subject to continuous assessment.

Plant Pathology 314 - Principles of integrated disease control
Epidemiology and disease forecasting; the role of quarantine, disease certification, cultivation practices, plant resistance, fungicides and biological control in integrated disease control programmes; formulation, method and application of fungicides; the management of fungicide resistance in fungal populations.
P Crop Protection 244

Plant Pathology 344 - Disease development and diagnosis and disease control systems
The biology, life-cycle, diagnosis and control of diseases of citrus, fruit, vine, agronomic and horticultural crops; the importance of fungal infections and mycotoxins in food production.
Subject to continuous assessment.
P Crop Protection 244, Plant Pathology 314

Plant Pathology 414 - Systematics and biology of plant pathogenic fungi and fungal-like eucaryotes
Morphology, taxonomy and biology of fungi and other fungal-like eucaryotic plant pathogens. Fungal physiology. Selected plant pathogenic genera in the kingdoms Chromista (oomycota), Protozoa (slime moulds) and Eumycota (Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Chytridiomycota, Zygomycota and Glomeromycota). Description of fungal-like eucaryotic plant pathogens.

Plant Pathology 424 - Microbial ecology of plant surfaces and the soil
An introduction to microbial ecology including microbial diversity, structure and development of microbial communities, interactions among microbial populations, adaptations to environmental conditions and quantitative ecology. The interrelationships between microorganisms (beneficial as well as plant pathogenic) associated with plant tissues (leaves, fruits, flowers, seeds and roots), and their living and nonliving environments. Soil as an ecosystem for microbes (fungi, bacteria and actinomycetes) and other biota (micro-, meso- and macrofauna), and the role of these organisms in the soil food web and soil health. Literature searches and the presentation of seminars.
Subject to continuous assessment.
P Crop Protection 244, Plant Pathology 314

Plant Pathology 444 - Infection routes and host/pathogen interaction
The behaviour of plant pathogenic fungi on plant surfaces; infection sites; penetration processes; forces applied by plant pathogenic fungi during the penetration process and defence systems put up by the plant.
P Crop Protection 244, Plant Pathology 314, 344

Plant Pathology 454 - Plant pathogenic procaryotes and viruses
Taxonomy, biology and epidemiology of plant pathogenic bacteria and mollicutes (phytoplasmas and spiroplasmas). Characteristics and epidemiology of plant pathogenic viruses.
P Crop Protection 244, Plant Pathology 314, 344

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Last update: 27 August 2008

 

 

 

  
 
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