Plant Pathology Minor

Training available in plant pathology at K-State includes the following areas:

• Diseases of Kansas crops (wheat, corn, sorghum, soybean, sunflower, turf, and horticultural plants)
• Ecology and evolution
• Genetics/biotechnology/genomics/bioinformatics
• Host-plant resistance
• Molecular biology of host-pathogen interactions
• Pathogen biology

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Course Requirements

Our minor in Plant Pathology requires a total of 15 credit hours.

Required (5 credit hours):

Course number & title	Credit hours & Term	Instructor(s)
PLPTH 500 Principles of Plant Pathology	3 hours Spring	Dr. Chris Little
and
PLPTH 585 Crop Diseases	2 hours Fall, Spring	Judy O'Mara
or
PLPTH 590 Landscape Diseases	2 hours Fall, Spring	Judy O'Mara

Plus 2 additional hours in Plant Pathology, such as:

Course number & title	Credit hours & Term	Instructor(s)
PLPTH 495 Undergraduate Research in Plant Pathology	0-3 hours Spring, Summer, and Fall	Coordinator: Jessica Rupp
PLPTH 587 / HORT 587 Turfgrass Diseases and Their Management	1 hour Fall	Jack Fry
PLPTH 610 / AGRON 610 Biotechnology	3 hours Fall	Harold Trick
PLPTH 730 Plant Nematology	3 hours Spring (even years)	Tim Todd
PLPTH 732 / AGRON 732 / ENTOM 732 Introduction to Plant Resistance to Pests	2 hours Fall (even years)	Mithila Jugulam / Tim Todd
PLPTH 755 Plant Resistance to Diseases	2 hours Fall (even years)	Tim Todd
PLPTH 765 Integrated Plant Disease Management	2 hours Fall	Jessica Rupp

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