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"Beet" - pest management simulation for a sugar beet crop, Centre for Computer-based Learning (CBL) in Land Use and Environmental Sciences (CLUES), University of Aberdeen. "Beet" uses sugar beet as a case study to enable students to gain experience of the issues and risks involved in executing a strategy for pesticide management in crop production. It is presented as a game in which players manage a beet crop on 40 hectares and can be given a variety of objectives, from maximising profits to minimising the environmental effects of pestidice use.

CABI Bioscience Training Courses, CABI UK centre at Egham. CABI is offering courses in the field of Biodiversity & Biosystematics, Biological Pest Managementand Environment with special empasises on Arthropods, Fungi, Plant Bacteria, Insect and Plant Nematodes. Further they are offering courses in Information Managment. Courses include (1) UKFCC Training Course on the Preservation and Maintenance of Microorganisms and Cell Lines, (2) International Course on the Identification of Fungi of Agricultural and Environmental Significance, (3) Basic Biochemical and Molecular Techniques, (4) PCR Characterisation of Filamentous Fungi, (5) Entomology Foundation Course, (6) Biological Pest Management, (7) Plant Parasitic Nematodes, and more not lsited here. Beside detailed information on these coures you find the following information: Forthcoming Courses, Other Training Services, FAQs, contact and links to other CABI pages. Visit this site regulary to see the new courses and for which course they take bookings.

Control Guides: Insects, Nematodes, Plant Diseases and Weeds, Florida Agricultural Retrieval System (FAIRS)

Delaware Cooperative Extension System, University of Delaware. Green Sheets: Select a crop and get general information on varietis, planting, yield, pests and diseases. Home, Yard and Garden: Pests (large number of insects), Horticulture (e. g. easy to grow plants, drought resistant plants, animals in the garden...), Ornamental-Lawn. Plant Diseases of Delaware: Select a disease and get information on it. The information on this server is very well organized.

Diagnostic Key to Major Tree Fruit Diseases, the University Experiment Farm at Kearneysville, University of West Virginia. This key is a modification of that presented originally by M. R. Schwarz and T. J. Burr, 1984, New York's Food and Life Sciences Bulletin Number 108, Diagnostic Keys for Identification of Diseases on Apple, Peach, and Cherry Trees in the Northeastern United States. The diagnostic keys for deciduous tree fruit diseases were developed to aid field personnel in the identification of diseases that are common to the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. You can decide wether to go through the identification key to diagnose a causal organism or you can skip the key and go directly to the photographic index. Here you will find high resolution pictures. The key and the extraordinary photographs of symptoms and diseases. Makes it a tip for this section! Do not miss to visit it!

Diagnosis for Crop Protection is a multimedia software package that aids in teaching the process of diagnosing crop problems. The user is presented with a problem scenario and must interrogate the program to diagnose the situation. Diagnosis is an interactive 'adventure game' for Plant Pathology. On this website you will find all information about this exciting approach. See some screenshots of the program or download scenarios and a free demo. This site gives also a good introduction to Diagnosis. System Requirements and a How to order page. Teachers in Plant Pathology should not miss this website and fantastic program.

Diseases of Field Crops (PS333), Plant Science Department, South Dakota State University. This is an On-Line course for Plant Pathology. The course provides an extensive survey of diseases affecting major food, fiber, and oilseed crops of the world. Emphasis is on diagnosis and disease management. The Homepage comes with an informative site map, where you can get the following informations: Course syllabus, Lecture & Labaratory Schedules, Term Paper Guidelines, Lecture Outline & Notes, Study Guide & Tests, Laboratory Excercises, Links to Plant Pathology, Disease Profiles, Class Notices & Assignements, Download Page.

Forest Entomology and Control, By P.D. Bell, Sir Sandford Fleming College, School of Natural Resources, Forestry Program. Online course in 14 modules with intorduction. The aim of this course is to identify and illustrate forest insect pests and their damages, determining their current population levels and predicting their future distributions within North America. To investigate and evaluate recent and proposed integrated pest management strategies. As the course 'Forest Pathology' highly useful resource on the web for forest entomology, especially for students.

Forest Pathology and Control, by P.D. Bell, Sir Sandford Fleming College, School of Natural Resources, Forestry Program. Online course in 14 modules from introduction to diseases. The aim of this cours is to understand the concept of forest disease by identifying the symptoms and causes of infectious and non-infectious diseases; investigate forest decline on a global scale. Very well organized online material with detailed information and high quality pics.

Horticultural Plant Pathology (MICBIO 104), Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Content of the course notes: Introduction, Diagnosis and the Disease Cycle, The Fungi Part 1: Introduction and the Lower Fungi, The Fungi Part 2: The True Fungi, Bacteria, and MLOs, Viruses, Nematodes and Parasitic Plants. In each note you will find beside the text self explanatory figures and graphs. This course is part of the Microbiology courses, but so far this was the only one related to plant pathology providing online material.

Integrated Pest Management, Contents: 1. Biological Control: Theory and Application, 2. Biotechnology: Applications, 3. Control Tactics (Methodologies), 4. Computer Applications, 5. Crop Pest Management, 6. Ecology and Population Sampling, 7. Host Plant Resistance, 8. Insect Pathogens, 9. IPM: Policy and Implementation, 10. Pesticides: Chemistries/Pesticide Resistance, 11. Medical and Veterinary, 12. Urban Pest Management and Protection of Stored Products. You can participate and contribute an article (see the instuctions).

Introduction to Molecular Virology, by Ed Rybicki, Dep. of Microbiology, University of Cape Town, 2nd version, 1995

Introduction to Plant Pathology. A guide to learn about plant health and the interaction of microbes and plants. Funds for development of these instructional materials have been partially provided by The APS Foundation and Department of Plant Pathology, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Content: Introduction, Symptoms (Disease diagnosis, symptoms, signs), Late Blight of Potato, Biotechnology and Plant Disease Resistance, Whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses.

Introductory Mycology, Botany 461/561 is an introduction in mycology by Joseph Spatafora, Oregon State University. Information about this course. Syllabus with lecture on-line. Images. Search. The Syllabus is divided into taxonomic sections: Zoosporic fungi I+II, Zygomycetes I+II, Basidiomycetes I-VII, Ascomycetes I-VI, and slime molds.

Introductory Plant Pathology, edited by J. E. Partridge, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (U-NL), USA. Everyone will have access to the 'Public Access Plant Pathology Information' where you will find the introduction to Plant Pathology. It is is an electronic Introductory Plant Pathology course. The content is divided into three main parts: (I) Principles and Concepts, (II) Plant Diseases divided into sub-groups for agronomic, horticultural and classic plant diseases, and (III) Exams and Case Studies. These materials are intended to complement the study of the Textbook "Plant Pathology, Third Edition", by G.N. Agrios. In 'Principles and Concepts you will nearly find everthing from Koch's Postulates over pathogenesis, plant defense mechanisms and epidemiology to plant health management strategies. I can not mentioned all topics covered by this extraordinary site, but worth to say that you will it here. Every single chapter is extremly well orgaized with figures, pictures and drawings where appropriate. The concept and the contents makes this website a tip for this section and it can be used as a textbook for plant pathology. If you want to learn plant pathology do not miss to visit this extraordinary site! This site is an absolute MUST - vist it now and bookmark it!

Introductory Plant Pathology, by I. Misaghi and Z. Xiong, Department of Plant Pathologyof, College of Agriculture, University of Arizona, USA. This is an introductory plant pathology course that studies representative plant diseases and causal agents, with emphasis on basic concepts of diagnosis, cause, epidemiology, and control. The content covers first general aspects on bacteria, viruses, fungi and nematodes. Then you will find parts for diseases, identification, diagnosis, management, resistance or dissemination. Site navigation is very easy and does not contain pictures.

Lessons in Plant Pathology: Late blight of potato and tomato, written by G. Schuman and C. D'Arcy, APS Press Online, American Phytopathological Society (APS). This is the first lesson in a series of lessons in the future (see instructors for details). Available: symptoms & signs, pathogen biology, disease cycle, epidemiology, disease management, (historical) significance and references. This is an excellent introduction to late blight and is highly useful for students as well as for teachers (they are invited to participate). The text is concise and precise. It is accompanied by many selfexplanatory pictures. For the disease cycle you will not only find a drawing but also photographic illustrations of the single steps.

Mactode Publications, maintained by J.D. Eisenback (Department of Plant Pathology, Virginia Tech, USA) and U. Zunke (Institute for Applied Botany, University of Hamburg, Germany). They offer educational resources on CD ROMs for a variety of users including nematologists, entomologists, plant pathologists, botanists, zoologists, horticulturists, gardeners, teachers, and students. Picture sets on CD-ROM: Nematodes, Insects (Plant Parastic Arthropods and Their Natural Enemies), plant pathogens. In each section you can view some selected pictures. Further available: general information, order form, digitized videos (nemtode identification, nemtode fighters) and more.

The Microbial World, by J. Deacon, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. This is an educational resource covering bacteria, fungi, viruses, biological control, environmental microbiology, disease of plants, humans and animals. I recommend to go to "Full list of profiles" to explore this web site. Here you will find 28 profiles like "Mycorrhizas and their significance", "Biocontrol of pine root rot" or "fungal tip growth". In each profile you will find may pictures illustrating the text. The text is completed by recommended readings and external web sites. At the bottom of each page you will the list of profiles, so you can not get lost. This site also provides background information like in profile "airborne microorganisms" where air-sampling methods are described or in "Penicillin and other antibiotics" where you will find a list of clinically important antibiotics. The quality of text and photographs make "The Microbial World" a Tip in this section of PPIGB.

Molecular Plant Virology, Dr. Zhongguo Xiong, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arizona: An experimental attempt to use the WWW as a teaching tool for Molecular Virology, lecture notes are divided into six subheadings: (I) History, Taxonomy, Symptoms, Genes, and Proteins, (II) Molecular Events of Virus Infection Process, (III) Genome Organization and Expression of Representative Virus Groups, (IV) Subviral Pathogens, (V) Molecular Mechanism of Virus, Plant , and Vector Interactions, and (VI) Virus ecology, Epidemiology and Management.

Molecular Plant Virology, Open Learning Materials. Department of Applied Biology, University of Hull, UK. Topic 1: Replication and Expression Strategies. Aim: To develop an understanding of the various means by which plant viruses replicate their genomes and express their genes. The material is divided into several chapters, each coming with references (reading), questinos to the chapter, and online help & newsgroup.

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, Educational Resources, including the 'Plant Pathology Notes'

Pesticide Education Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources: Pesticide Applicator education, Health and Safety, Information Databases, Protection of the Environment, Laws and Regulations, IPM.

Plant Disease Management, written by P.A. Arneson, supported in part by ARS-USDA, located at Dep. of Crop Protection at Zamorano, Honduras. An outstanding online resource for the principles and practice of disease managemnet. The document is divided into three main parts: (1) Plant Disease Epidemiology, (2) Spatial Aspects of Plant Diseases and (3) Plant Disease Management Strategies. The epidemiology part is with 17 chapters the biggest one. The Introduction is followed by chapters on monocyclic and polycyclic epidemics, mathematic models, inoculum production, disease progress, estimating model parameters or practical use of models.

Plants, Pathogens & People, Deptartment of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, USA. This web site is intended to promote agricultural awareness and is designed as a virtual classroom. Read the "Welcome" message first, because here you will find some help. In the moment the classroom for Late Blight is available and soon the one for Durch Elm Disease. In the classroom you can select the Lecture Hall or Laboratory, but first move your mouse over the screen to see where you can find detailed information. There are microscopic pictures, slides, maps, a calculator (needed in the lab) and a dictionary. The lectures guide you through important steps to understand the disease and in the lab you will be introduced to important experiments. The site is very easy to navigate and explanations are included where appropriate. The effort to bring plant pathology not only to scientists, but to an interested public and the didactic conversion into an interactive virtual classroom makes this site a TIP in this section. Highly recommended

Principles of Plant Disease Control, Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Available Course Information: Description, general information, schedule. Study question for lecture topics: For each topic a list of questions is available. Classical Diseases: (Part I) Late blight of potato, Coffee rust, Powdery and downy mildews of grape, (Part II) Dutch elm disease, Chestnut blight, Helminthosporium of rice, (Part III) Southern leaf blight of corn, Wheat stem rust (race 15b). For each disease links are available, which point to detailed information.

Problem Identification AIDS.Prototype homepage utilizing images to help identify common plant problems (intensive use of graphics). Maintained by Michigan State University Extension (MSUE). Until now divided into 4 sections: Flowers, Ground Covers, Shrubs and Trees. Sections with many species. Easy to use, Identification of problems guided by very good pictures. Do not miss this site!

Quantitative Population Ecology, by A. Sharov, Dept. of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. True online lectures in 13 chapters including Population systems and their components (1), Spatial distribution of organisms (3), Statistical analysis of population dynamics (4), Predators, Parasites, and Pathogens (10), Competition and Cooperation (11), Dispersal and spatial dynamics (12), or Population outbreaks (13). A lab section (including Parasitism and Biological Control) completed this fantastic resource. Each chapter is extremly well organized and useful. The text is accompanied by many figures and downloadable files. This site is an absolute must for all teaching Population ecology or students learning it, but it should also not be missed by anybody else. Highly recommendable!. For more information on this website see the PPIGB Reader's Review.

Safe and Effective Use of Pesticides on Agricultural Crops, by M.J. Weaver, Extension Coordinator; P.A. Hipkins, Assistant Coordinator, Chemical, Drug, and Pesticide Unit, Virginia Tech. Some parts are in a pdf-format, these parts require ADOBE Acrobat Reader Software.

Teaching Plant Pathology, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. (1) Plant Pathology On Line: Plant Disease Management (Principles and Practice) and Plant Disease Profiles; (2) Plant Path 444: Intergrated Pest Management (IPM); (3) Glossary of terms and more class room material. Plant disease Management is covering Epidemiology, Spatial Aspects of Plant Disease and Management Strategies. The Plant Disease Profiles are available for: Apple Scab, Fire Blight, Late Blight and Sigatoka (including description of the pathogens, history, losses, managment, hosts, symptoms, diesease cycle and references). IPM provides lecture notes on concepts, IPM tactics or implementation. The teaching pages are extremely well organized and present well-funded information. You will find in depth information and excellent education resources. It would fill pages to describe the site in detail. It is an absolute must for all interested in plant pathology.

Texas Plant Disease Handbook, Texas Plant Pathology Extension, Department of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Texas A&M University (TAMU). First step is to select a host (Vegetable, Fruit & Nut Crops, Flowers, Ground Covers, Shrubs, Lawns & Turf, Cereal Crops, Fiber, Oil & Specialty, Forage Crops, and Sugar Crops). The you can select a host of interest and the causal agent (e. g. fungal, viral... or all) or you can enter the name of the causal agent. You will then get a list of causal agents with a detailed description of their symptoms. Where available high quality pictures will be displayed with the description. A special section covers problems affecting multiple crops (e. g. air pollution). In methods & materials you will get detailed information on topics like cultural practices for disease control or about seed treatments or non-chemical control. The organization of this website and its content makes it a very high valuable site for plant pathologists. Do not miss to visit this extraordinary site.

Virtual Classroom, Plant Pathology Group, Department of Plant Sciences, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. The plant pathology group has prepared an excellent education resource called the "Virtual Classroom" written in German. Click on the corresponding link in the left frame to get there. In the moment available: Diagnostic (Diagnostik), epidemiology (Epidemiology) and kryptogams. This resource is one of those rare hightlights on the web where you will find the information you are looking for fast and of high quality. Virtual Classroom ist für alle Studenten der Phytopathology ein MUSS. Es bleibt eigentlich nicht mehr zu sagen als: 'Sofort ansehen und diese Quelle regelmäßig nutzen'. Sowohl 'Diagnostik' als auch 'Epidemiologie' sind von der Navigation sehr einfach. Hier macht Lernen Spaß. Virtual Classroom is an outstanding resource for plant pathology. Do not miss it.