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BIO 214 Plant Pathology

NCE2 levelSciences12 topics

BIO 214 covers 12 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Meaning of plant pathology and pathogenicity.
  2. Plant pathology as it affects food production and quality of life.
  3. Differences between diseases, parasites and pests
  4. Classes of diseases, modes of transmission of pathogens
  5. Entry of pathogens in tissues of hosts
  6. Diseases enhanced by abiotic factors such as adverse weather conditions
  7. Phenomenon of infection and factors influencing it.
  8. Features of the major groups of plant pathogens (viruses, algae, fungi
  9. Diseases of food crops such as maize, yams, cassava, rice, tomatoes and
  10. Biology and control of diseases; a few selected diseases (biological
  11. Diseases of cash crops such as tobacco, groundnut, oil palm and any other
  12. General principles of plant protection.

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Meaning of plant pathology and pathogenicity.

Plant pathology is the branch of science that studies plant diseases, including their causes, development, effects, and control. Pathogenicity refers specifically to the ability of an organism or agent to cause disease in a plant.

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