Biological Control: Microbial interactions for improved plant health

Course description

Biological control has a great potential to restrict the damage caused by plant pathogens. This course will include definitions, terms, concepts and theories in biological control and have two main themes in biocontrol as the core of the course schedule:

1. inoculation biological control where biocontrol microbes (BCAs) are applied to the plant crop and
2. conservation biological control where indigenous microbial communities suppress plant diseases.

Course set up

A journal club will be running weekly for 3 months discussing papers suggested by teachers. Students prepare either a poster or an oral presentation, followed by one week intensive studies at Älvkarleö 29 May - 3 June 2017.

Prerequisite Knowledge

This course targets PhD- students with interest in plant pathology Agriculture, Horticulture and/or Forestry. A prerequisite is that the students have a MSc within natural sciences. A limited number of MSc students within natural sciences may also attend the course.

Main teachers

• Enrique Monte, Professor University of Salamanca, Spain
• Alexandre Jousset, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, The Netherlands