DSC – 6D
APMB 243P Practicals – XII: PLANT PATHOLOGY (1 credit)
1. Demonstration of Koch’s postulates in fungal, bacterial and viral plant pathogens.
2. Preparing a plant pathology herbarium
3. Study of important diseases of crop plants by cutting cross sections and microscopic examination fungal conspicuous structures from infected plant materials – (a) Albugo and Puccinia.
4. Study of important diseases of crop plants by cutting cross sections and microscopic examination fungal conspicuous structures from infected plant materials – (a) Ustilago and Colletotrichum.
5. Study of important diseases of crop plants by cutting cross sections and microscopic examination fungal conspicuous structures from infected plant materials – (a) Fusarium (b) Verticillium (c) Rhizoctonia
6. Examination of citrus canker symptoms and isolation of the causal organism.
7. Isolation of pectinolytic phytopathogens and testing their pectinolytic activity.
8. Isolation of antagonists bacterial population from soils.
9. Detecting and measuring extracellular enzymes of fungi and bacteria