Department of Plant Pathology

Overview

The Department of Plant Pathology has strong research, teaching and extension outreach programs that cover basic and applied aspects of plant pathology, plant-microbe interactions and plant health management. We are ready to provide the knowledge to ensure plant health wherever it is threatened. Our department is the home for graduate education- not only in plant pathology, but also in a wide field ranging from sustainable agriculture to toxicology to genetics and molecular biology-related majors. The major objectives concern the scientific training of professional phytopathologists. Emphasis is placed on the fundamental and practical concepts associated with plant health and disease, physiology of parasitism, host-parasite relationships, genetics of host resistance, genetics of pathogen variation and variability, genetics of host-pathogen-hyperparasite populations, epidemiology of plant diseases, nematology, virology, phytotherapeutics and clinical phytopathology.

Education

In 2017-2018 Academic Year, credit system has been applied in YAU for the newly enrolled students. The rest of the students are accepted to enroll as the ordinary semester based academic system. During the first semester of 2019-2020 Academic Year, the department offered the courses for semester-based system for the fourth year and final students in addition to the credit system students.Our department offers the courses for undergraduate and graduate students.

Undergraduate program (Credit Saving System)

Undergraduate program (Semester Based System)

Graduate Course (Credit System)

Research and Development

Scientific and applied research in fields of Mycology, Plant Bacteriology and Nematology, Plant Virology and plant disease diagnostics were conducted using both conventional and molecular techniques. Research based teaching was initiated for the Undergraduate Students and assigned them to do experiments in groups for submission of graduation thesis. The graduate research programs for master and doctorate degrees were also established.

Research Infrastructure

Plant Mycology and Fungal Diseases
Plant Bacteriology and Bacterial Diseases
Plant Nematology and Nema Diseases
Plant Virology and Virus and Mycoplasma Diseases
Laboratory for Molecular Diagnostics and Control Measures