COURSE: BSC IN PLANT PATHOLOGY

This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the plant pathology industry.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Sujects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• General chemistry


• Academic literacy


• Molecular and cell biology


• General physics


• Mathematics


• Biometry


• Plant biology


• Information literacy


• Introductory genetics


• Introduction to microbiology


• Animal diversity

Second year subjects:

• Introduction to proteins and enzymes


• Carbohydrate metabolism


• SA flora and vegetation


• Gene and chromosome organisation


• Growth diversity and control of bacteria


• Invertebrate biology


• Lipid and nitrogen metabolism


• Biochemistry in perspective


• Plant biochemical evolution


• Genetic analysis and manipulation


• Plant genetic and biotechnology


• Growth activities and control of fungi

Third year subjects:

• Plant ecophysiology


• Structure and diversity of viruses


• Environmental microbiology


• General plant pathology


• Molecular biology of prokaryotes


• Gene manipulation and microbes


• Plant disease control


• Host pathogen interactions

Careers: plant pathologist, researcher.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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