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| PROT0001-5 | Plant pathogen agents, (1st part) : viruses
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| Duration : | 18h Th |
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| Lecturer : | Philippe Lepoivre |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| The course aims at giving to the students a synthetic view of the specificities of plant viruses [their biology as well as their interactions with the plants, their environment and vectors]. The course also presents the bases of the different control strategies of virus diseases. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| After completing the course the student must show its capacity of using information resources to:
- Identify the different steps of the virus cycle targeted by the control methods
- Quantify the impact of the different control strategies on the development of the epidemics
- Evaluate the biological and socio economical constraints on the choice of the control methods by growers to ensure a sustainable production
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Basics in microbiology and plant biology |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Face to face presentation
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Phytopathologie (P. Lepoivre), 2002, De Boeck |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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- Seminar (50%)
- Personal report on the laboratory exercices (50%)
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Organizational remarks :
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Contacts :
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| P. Lepoivre (philippe.lepoivre@ulg.ac.be) |
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