Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
PHYTOMYCOLOGY ZBK307 0 + 0 3.0 5.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Graduate Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery This course is carried out therotically with coloured slides of fungi structures using power point presentation and experimentally by examining fungus slides and samples under stereoscopic microscopy and research microscopy
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Goals To provide necessary information and skills on characteristics and identification of plant fungal disease which will form bases to the theoretical and applied courses .
Course Content Nutrition and growth of fungi, somatic and reproduction structures of fungi, mode of sexual and asexual reproduction, Classification of fungi, class, order and family aspects, life cycles of important plant pathogenic genera and species .
Learning Outcomes 1) Identifies mycology and explains the beneficial and harmful sides of the fungi for human beings.
2) Informed on the fungi cell and their somatic structures.
3) Succeeds the isolation of the plant pathogenic fungi, grow them in the media and gains the skills of inoculating them into plants
4) Explains the sexual and asxual reproduction routes and structures of the fungi.
5) Determines the taxonomic properties of the plant pathogenic fungi.
6) Makes the basic descriptions of the Fungi Classes, Orders and Families. Informed on the biological cycles of the important fungi species.
7) Has the primary knowledge necessarry for fungi identification.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Description and history of Mycology, importance, benefits and profits of fungi for human beings, nutritional and environmental demands Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week Somatic structures of fungi, the fungi cell and structure. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week Reproduction in fungi, sexual and asexual reproduction routes Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Classification of fungi, general characteristics of the Myxomycetes and Plasmodiophoramycetes in the protozoan kingdom and biological cycsles of the pathogenic species. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Chromista kingdom, general characteristics of Oomycetes Class, Mycological properties and biological cycle of Saprolegniales order. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week General characteristics of the fungi in the order of Pythiales and Perenosporales, distinction of the important plant pathogenic genera and biological cycles of reference species Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Order of Albuginales, general characteristics of the fungi kingdom and its sections, Chytridiomycota division Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Properties of the Zygomycota division Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Mid-term exam Question Answer

10. Week Ascomycota division. General characteristics, structures of the ascus and ascomata, mechanisms of ascus formation Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Fungi with naked ascus (Hemiascomycetes), Taphrina species, fungi in the class of Plectomycetes and pyrenomycetes Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Fungi in the Class of Discomycetes and loculoascomycetes, biological cycles of the important plant-pathogenic species Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Basidiomycota division, structures of the basidiım and basidiomata, mechanisms of basidium formation and classification of the basidiomycota Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week Spores, spore structure and biological cycle of the Rust, Loose Smut, common bunt fungi, parasol mushrooms, wood-decay fungi Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
15. Week Properties of the mitosporic fungi, their spore structures, plant-pathogenic anamorphic fungi species Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
16. Week Final examination Question Answer
Brainstorming
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
"Alexopoulos, C.J., Mims, C.W., Blacwell, M., 1996. Introductory Mycology. Fourth Ed. John Wiley& Sons, Inc. New York Alexopoulos, C.J., Mims, C.W., Blacwell, M., 1996. Introductory Mycology. Fourth Ed. John Wiley& Sons, Inc. New York "
"Biçici, M. 1990. Mikoloji Çukurova Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Ders kitabı No: 121 Adana. "
"Kirk, P.M., Cannon, P.F., David, J.C., Stalpers, J.A., 2001. Dictionary of The Fungi 9th Edition CABI Publishing UK. "
Alexopoulos, C.J.1962. Introductory Mycology . Second edition John Wiley Sons, Inc., New York.
Döken, M.T., Demirci, E. 1994. Mikoloji-1 Atatürk Üniversitesi Yayınları No: 681 Ziraat Fakültesi yayınları No: 304 Ders kitapları serisi No: 56 Erzurum.
Hawksworth, D.L, Kirk, P.M., Sutton, B.C., and Pegler,D.N. 1995. Dictionary of Fungi 8 th ed. CAB International UK.
İren, S., Katırcıoğlu Y.Z. 1989. Uygulamalı Mikoloji Ankara Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi yayınları: 1126 Yardımcı Ders kitabı:322 Ankara
Öner, M. 1972.Mikoloji I-II Ege Üniversitesi Fen Fakültesi Kitaplar serisi No:39 Ege Üniversitesi matbaası Bornova.
Talbot, P.H.B., 1971. Principles of Fungal Taxonomy. The Macmillan Pres London.

Assessment
Measurement and Evaluation Methods and Techniques
Use of Projection machine and Overhead projector in course and than use of stereoscopic microscopy, research microscopy, autoclave and other laboratory apparatus in the laboratory. Written test and oral exam in the mid and final exams.
ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 15 2
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 15 2
Practice (Teaching Practice, Music/Musical Instrument Practice , Statistics, Laboratory, Field Work, Clinic and Polyclinic Practice) 15 2
Midterm Exam 1 3
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 10
Final Exam 1 3
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 15
Total Workload
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