EPWS 310 PLANT PATHOLOGY
Study Guide - Exam I
Readings:
Chapter 1 pp 3-40 General concepts, history, significance, diagnosis, Koch’Äôs postulates
Chapter 2 pp 43-62 Terminology, disease triangle, disease cycle
Chapter 3 pp 63-82 Pathogen produced enzymes, toxins, growth regulators
Chapter 5 pp 93-113 Structural and chemical defense, pre-existing and induced defense
Chapter 6 pp 115-128 Plant resistance to pathogens, gene for gene concept
Chapter 9 pp 173-195 Disease control using cultural, biological, and chemical methods
This study guide is not complete. It is a list of suggested topics to cover in your review.
1. Know the terminology and definitions presented in class.
2. Be familiar with types of pathogens, their signs and symptoms, disease triangle,
Koch’Äôs postulates.
3. Study historically important disease epidemics, their primary causes, pathogens, etc.
4. Review the disease cycle-inoculation, penetration, infection, dissemination, survival.
5. Know examples of pathogen-produced enzymes, toxins, and growth regulators, including the pathogens that produce them.
6. Be familiar with and know examples of means that plants use to defend themselves
from pathogens, including structural, and chemical, induced, and preformed
means.
7. Understand the difference between compatible and incompatible interactions, the
hypersensitive reaction, and the gene-for-gene theory, SAR.
8. Know plant resistance terms including horizontal, vertical, tolerance, escape, non-host.
9. Study the different types of control: cultural, biological, and chemical and know which
types of diseases each would work best for.
Study Guide - Exam II
Readings:
Chapter 11 pp 245-260 General introduction to fungi
Chapter 11 pp 260-266 Myxomycetes, Plasmodiophoromycetes
Chapter 11 pp 266-283 Oomycetes- Pythium, Phytophthora, downy mildews
Chapter 11 pp 283 Chytridiomycetes
Chapter 11 pp 283-286 Zygomycetes
Chapter 11 pp 286-298 Introduction to Ascomycetes, powdery mildews, peach leaf curl
This study guide is not complete. It is a list of suggested topics to cover in your review.
1. General characteristics of fungi, the symptoms and diseases that they cause
2. The disease cycle and how it relates to the life cycles of fungi and fungal-like organisms
3. Primary and secondary inoculum, overseasoning structures, and the implications for control.
4. General characteristics of the major groups of fungi and fungal-like organisms.
5. General strategies for control of diseases caused by each of the major groups.
6. Know the terms presented in class.
Readings:
Chapter 11 (pp299-406), Chapter 14 (479-563)
Diseases covered:
Leaf spot diseases -Alternaria, Septoria, Bipolaris/Cochiobolous
Canker diseases - Nectria
Anthracnose - Collectotrichum
Fruit diseases - Claviceps, Venturia, Monilinia
Vascular wilt diseases - Fusarium, Verticillium,
Ophiostoma
Grey mold and White mold - Botrytis and Sclerotinia
Postharvest diseases
Rusts - Puccinia, Cronartium
Smuts/bunts - Ustilago, Tilletia
Basidiomycete root rots - Rhizoctonia, Scletorium,
Armillaria
Basidiomycete wood rots
Diseases caused by potyviruses, barley yellow dwarf
luteovirus, beet curly top geminivirus, tobacco mosaic tobamovirus, cucumber
mosaic cucumovirus, beet yellows closterovirus, tomato spotted wilt tospovirus
Concepts to study:
1. Names of the major diseases and the names of the fungal
causal agents
2. The disease
cycle and role of each spore type in the disease cycle for the major classes of
diseases
3. Definition
of terms including spore types, fruiting bodies, types of inoculum and terms
relating to the disease process
4. Role of the
different spore types
5. How the
different fungi overwinter and the primary and secondary inoculum
6. Principles
of control for the major groups of fungal diseases
7. Know the
nuclear state of different spores and mycelia
8. Definition
of the terms used with viruses
9. Know the
viral nucleic acid types and viral capsid shapes
10. Know how viruses are transmitted and types of vectors
11. Methods of detection of plant viruses
12. Principles of control of plant viruses and how that
relates to transmission
13. Properties of viruses
Study Guide -
Final Exam
This study
guide is not complete. It is a
list of suggested topics to cover in your review.
1. All terminology and definitions
presented in class
2. The types of pathogens, their signs and
the symptoms they cause
3. Major concepts - disease triangle,
Koch’Äôs postulates
4. The
disease cycle and how it relates to the life cycles of the various pathogens
5. Understand the difference between
compatible and incompatible interactions, the
hypersensitive
reaction, and the gene-for-gene theory, systemic acquired resistance (SAR)
6. Inoculation, dissemination, and
overwintering methods for the different types of pathogens
7. Different types of control methods and
which types of diseases each work best for
8. General
characteristics of fungi, bacteria, viruses, and the diseases that they cause
9. Primary and secondary inoculum, survival
structures, and the implications for control for the different pathogen groups
10. General characteristics of the major
groups of fungi and fungal-like organisms, bacteria, and viruses
11. General strategies for control of
diseases caused by each of the major pathogen groups.
12. Names of
the major diseases and their causal agents
13. Understand
abiotic disease and the causes
14. Concepts of plant disease epidemiology,
the different patterns of disease, and the implications for control
15. Modern
tools for control of plant diseases
16. Know how pathogens
cause disease and how plants defend themselves
17. Know how
plant viruses are transmitted and the types of vectors