UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN BOTANY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)
SYLLABUS

Application Oriented Subject II - Plant Protection

Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Lecture 4 Hrs; Practicals 2 Hrs. per week

Unit - I

A general account of plant diseases and causal agents. insect transmission of bacteria and viruses.

Unit - II

Principles of Plant Protection: Prevention, quarantine, eradication, burning, removal of alternate host. Protection: a) cultural, b) chemical and c) biological. Seed certification - Legilation in plant protection.

Unit - III

Classification of different chemical pesticides - their mode of action and residual effects.

Unit - IV

Study of symptoms, etiology and control measures of the following plant diseases. 1) Damping off of seelings, 2) Blast of paddy, 3) Red rot of sugarcane, 4) Wilt of cottOn, 5) Citrus canker, 6) Tobacco mosaic and 7) Bunchy top of Banana.

Unit - V

Plant protection appliances: Sprayers - dusters - soil injector - seed dressing drum.

Practical

1. A detailed study of diseased specimens included in the theory.
2. Identification of various plant protection appliances mentioned in the syllabus and their working mechanism.

Reference Books

1. Bap Reddy 1968, Plant Protection in India, Allied Publishers.
2. Chattabothyaya S.B, Principles and Procedures of Plant Protection.
3. Chaudhury & Majid S 1954, Handbook of Plant Protection, Department of Agriculture, Assam.
4. Manners J.G 1990, Principles of Plant Pathology, Cambridge University Press.
5. Mukurdan T.K, Plant Protection, Principles and Practice Asia Publishing House.
6. Rangasami.G, 1994, Diseases of Crop Plants in India, Printice Hall of India Ltd.
7. Pandey B.P 1989, A Text Book of Plant Pathology, Pathogen and Plant Disease, S.Chand & Co Pvt Ltd.
8. Pyenson L.L Elements of Plant Protection, John Wiley & Sons.
9. Walker J.C 1969, Plant Pathology, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co Ltd.