Plant Pathology Dept

Message about Department

The main activity of the department is imparting education to undergraduate students in the disciplines of plant pathology.   The department is well equipped with laboratory and field facilities with sophisticated instruments required for the conduction of practical. Bio fertilizer laboratory established in this section to farmers for fixation of nitrogen and other nutrients in soil through student of RAWE. Extension activities are been carried out in the form of Farmers training conducted periodically.

Scope and Importance of Plant Pathology

Plant pathology is a branch of agricultural sciences which includes study of symptoms, causal agent, etiology, epidemiology, resulting losses and control of plant diseases.  in plant pathology studied the causes of plant diseases, mechanism of disease development, interaction between the host plant and pathogens. Development of suitable and economical methods of plant disease management.

Plant Pathology

Sr. No. Semester Course No. Credits Course Title
1 I MIBO 111 2(1+1) Introductory Microbiology
2 II PATH 121 3(2+1) Fundamentals of Plant Pathology
3 II PATH 232 2(1+1) Principles of Integrated Disease Management
4 IV ELE PATH 243 3(2+1) Bio-fertilizers, Bio-control Agents and Bio-pesticides
5 V PATH 354 3(2+1) Diseases of Field and Horticultural Crops and their Management – I
6 VI PATH 365 3(2+1) Diseases of Field and Horticultural Crops and their Management-II
7 VIII ELM PATH 486 10(0+10) Mushroom Cultivation Technologies

 

 

List of Equipment
Sr. No. Particular Qty. Make Specification
1 Laminer Air flow

 

 02 Digital 3’X2’X2’ size
2 Refrigerator 354 lit 02 Samsung
3 Autoclave 02
4 Mechanical Shaker 02
5 Spilt type air conditioner 01 LLOYD Electronics & Engineering Ltd.
6 Hot air Oven 2 Modern industrial Corporation
7 Electronic Balance 2 Elder Instrument PVT.Ltd
8 Compound Microscope 11 H.P.E.
9 Simple Microscope 02
10 Gas Cylinder 1 Bharat Gas
12 Incubator 1 Biotechno Lab
13 Cooker 1 –
15 Digital colony counter 1 Modern industrial Corporation
16 Wooden Slide Box 1 –
18 Disease sample box 50 –
19 Disease Sample Photos 90 –
20 Charts of Diseases 37

 

List of books

Sr. No. Author Title Qty.
1 Rao N.S.S. Soil Microbiology 10
2 Rangaswami G. Agricultural Microbiology 25
3 Singh R.S. Introduction of Principal of Plant Pathology 35
4 Rangawami G. Diseases of Crops Plants 10
5 Singh C. Modern Techniques of Raising Field Crops 10
6 Razdan M.K. Introduction to Plant Tissue Culture 15
7 Chavbe Crop diseases their management 12
8 Ambadkar Agriculture microbiology 10
9 Hingole Diseases of field crops their management 10
10 Chore A text book of seed technology 10
11 Stanier R.Y. General Microbiology 5
12 Pelczar M.J. Microbiology 5
13 Singh R.S. Plant Diseases 5
14 Saha L.R. Hand Book of Plant Protection 3
15 V.N.Pathak Fundamentals of Plant Pathology 5
16 P.Tauro An Introduction to microbiology 4
17 H.C.Dube Fungi bacteria Viruses 5
18 V.K.Gupta Disease of vegetable Crops 5
Total 184

List of Charts

Sr. No. Item
1 Spore Fruits in fungi
2 Disease Cycle of powdery mildew of rose
3 Disease cycle of downy mildew of grapes
4 Disease cycle of stem rust of wheat
5 Fungal isolation & bacterial isolation
6 Disease cycle of  late blight of potato & tomato
7 Virus transmission through seed, pollen & insects
8 Virus transmission through nematodes
9 Types of symptoms caused by viruses
10 Disease cycle of fungal soft rot of fruits and vegetable
11 Classification of plant pathogenic viruses
12 Tikka diseases of groundnut
13 Nodule formation by Rhizobium bacteria
14 Cercospora of groundnut
15 Bacterial blight of paddy
16 Anthracnose of bean
17 Life cycle of Perenospora
18 Bacterial Transduction
19 Bacterial Transformation
20 Life cycle of Pythium
21 Life cycle of phytophthora
22 Dieses cycle of crown gall
23 Ft conjugation step I
24 Disease cycle of covered smut & bunt of wheat
25 Life cycle of ustilago
26 Diseases cycle of fusarium wilt of tomato
27 Development & symptoms of diseases caused by alternaria
28 Diseases cycle of fire blight at apple
29 Diseases cycle of Rhizoctonia solani
30 Types of systematic symptoms caused by viruses & viroids in plants
31 Life cycle of Agaricous
32 Life cycle of Pencillium
33 Life cycle of Albugo
34 Life cycle of Erysiphee
35 Life cycle of Aspergillus
36 life cycle of Mucor
37 Life cycle of Sclerospora

List of Disease Samples

Sr.No. Name of available disease  sample No.of

Sample
1 Black spot of rose 1
2 Sigatoka disease of banana 1
3 Leaf spot of cucurbits 1
4 Anthracn0se of chilli 1
5 Dieback of mango 2
6 Anthracnose 0f mango 1
7 Lethal yellow of cocount 1
8 Leaf spot of cocount 2
9 Leaf spot of okra 1
10 Rust of jasmine 1
11 Reddning of guava 1
12 Wilt of cocount 1
13 Malformation of mango 1
14 Early blight of tomato 1
15 Powdery mildew of rose 1
16 Anthracnose of cashew 1
17 Powdery mildew of okra 2
18 Late blight of tomato 1
19 Die back of cashew 2
20 Anthracnose of grapes 1
21 Leaf spot of pomogranate 1
22 Leaf spot of sapota 1
23 Red rust of cashew 1
24 Smut of onion 1
25 Anthracnose of bean 1
26 Anthracnose of tomato 1
27 Alternaria leaf spot of marigold 1
28 Rust of coffee 1
29 Citrus canker 1
30 Downey mildew of cruciferous 1
31 Alternaria leaf spot of cruciferous 1
32 Leaf spot of jasmine 1
33 Oily spot of pomogranate 1
34 Wilt of gladiolus 1
35 Blossom end of tomato 1
36 Anthracnose of pomogranate 1
37 Purple blotch of onion 1
38 Powdery mildew of mango 1
39 Dieback of rose 1
40 Alternaria leaf spot of ber 2

 

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