Diseases caused by biotic factors. Cane and foliar diseases caused by fungi. Fruit and flower diseases caused by fungi. Rust diseases. Root and crown diseases caused by fungi. Diseases caused by bacteria. Diseases caused by viruses and viruslike agents. Aphid-transmitted disease…
Morphological types of viruses and virus-like particles in fungi; The biology and biochemistry of isometric double-stranded RNA; Structure, genome, organization, and taxonomy; Virus-host interaction; Evolution; Infection of fungi with Alien viruses.
Kingdom fungi introduction to fungi and their significance to humans; Characteristics of fungi; Fungi systematics; Phylum chytridiomycota; Phylum zygomycota class zygomycetes; Phylum zygomucota class trichomycetes; Phylum ascomycota introduction to ascomycetes; Deuteromycetes as…
Virus and MLO diseases; Bacterial diseases; Fungus diseases - foliage diseases; Fungus diseases - diseases of stem, leaf sheath and root; Fungus diseases - seedling diseases; Fungus diseases - diseases of grain and inflorescence; Diseases caused by nematodes; Physiological disea…
V. 1 - Origins, specificity, structure, and physiology; v. 2 - Diseases, distribution, epidemiology and control.
Origins, specificity, structure, and physiology; Evolution at the center of origin; Taxonomy of the cereal rust fungi; Specificity; The formae speciales; Race specificity and methods of study; Genetics of the pathogen: host association; Histology and molecular biology of host: p…
Molecular events during early recognition process; Pathogen recognizes host: host recognizes pathogen; Molecular events during fungal evasion of host's defense machanisms; Lipid breakdown products and active oxygen species; Pathogenesis-related proteins and other antifungal prot…
The main groups of micro-organisms. Microbial nutrition and physiology. Methods in plant microbiology. Microbial communities and successions. Micro-organisms as saprotrophs and plant pathogens. Classification of micro-organisms as saprotrophs and pathogens. Virulence and resista…
Anaerobic fungi: taxonomy, biology, and distribution in nature; The ultrastructure of anaerobic fungi; Nutrition and survival of anerobic fungi; Fermentation Product generation in rumen chytridiomycetes; Regulatory constraints in the degradation and fermentation of carbohydrate …
