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HORT 1025 - Pest Management

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture NoneLab None
Course Description: Pests can cause a great deal of aesthetic and economic damage to plants. Students will identify pests that affect the quality and production of horticultural plants and examine ways to manage the pests by chemical means or natural methods. Students will examine weeds, diseases, insects and other pests. This course will help prepare students for the state commercial pesticide applicator examination.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Assessing plant problems Nutrition Site Genetics Disease Animal damage
  2. Control methods
  3. Diseases caused by non-living agents
  4. Diseases caused by organic agents Fungi Monerans Viruses
  5. Growing healthy plants
  6. Pests of the animal kingdom Damage caused by mammals Damage caused by arthropods Damage caused by other animals
  7. Weeds Identification Control methods

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. identify many common weeds.
  2. recommend effective pest control methods.
  3. diagnose many insect or disease symptoms that affect plants.


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