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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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PLPA 4110 - Field Plant Pathology

4 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
Provides an overview of economically important diseases of row crops, vegetables, fruit trees, forest trees, ornamental crops, and turfgrasses in South Carolina. Methods and procedures used in the diagnosis of plant diseases, especially late spring and early summer diseases, are discussed. Basic techniques of pure culture and identification of plant pathogens and Koch’s postulates are taught. Diagnosis of a wide variety of diseases of cultivated and wild plants is carried out. Offered summer session only. Preq: PLPA 3100 . Coreq: PLPA 4111 .

This 4000-level course has a 6000-level counterpart. Students should refer to the Graduate Catalog for the 6000-level description and requirements.



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