P000147, Integrerade bekämpningsstrategier för hållbara odlingssystem, 10.0 Hp
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Kursplan

Fastställd av: Vicedekan FU-LTV, 2025-07-04
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Nivå

Forskarnivå

Ämne

Trädgårdsvetenskap

Betygsskala

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Kursspråk

Engelska

Behörighetskrav

Mål

On completion of the course, students will be able to:

• explain the fundamental application and integration of basic disciplines as biology, ecology and technology for the development of sustainable management of pests, diseases and weeds in crops that are logical, practical and possible to adopt by farmers
• produce a pest management strategy that takes into account several different pests and combines their control measures to achieve environmentally sustainable, practical and economic pest control;
• explain the definition of integrated pest management and its historical background, critically reflecting on why it was developed and determining its limitations in the context of modern pest management with a global perspective;
• explain the environmental impact of different pest management strategies and evaluate how that relates to their choice within IPM programs.

Innehåll

Plant protection management relies on a profound knowledge of the biology and ecology of the causal organisms and of the crop ecology where they act. Important problems with pests, diseases and weeds especially in horticulture will be addressed within the concept of integrated pest management (IPM). The students will learn how to incorporate subdisciplines of plant pathology, entomology, nematology and weed sciences (epidemiology, etiology, population ecology, microbial pathogenicity, competition etc.) into holistic management programs that are logical, practical and adoptable by farmers.

Exercises, seminars, excursions, individual project work, and the completion of three individual assignments are compulsory.

Examinationsformer

The course examination takes the form of three submitted assignments. MSc students perform the first two individually and the third one in groups. PhD students are required to perform each assignment individually. **Assignment one: Factsheet related to IPM of an individual pest on a specific crop (25% of grade).** The factsheet should be about a pest and/or a crop that they are studying, or planning to study, in their PhD research. **Assignment two: Journal Club presentation (25% of grade):** PhD students should choose a key article that relates to the background knowledge needed for their PhD research/hypotheses/research questions/methodology, which also relates to IPM. They must also link the paper to knowledge gaps and research questions in relation to their PhD and explain how this paper provides a background for them or helps them to conduct their research (e.g., provides a methodological framework, preliminary data etc). PhD students may not choose one of their own published papers but, may choose one published by their supervisors if they wish. **Assignment three: IPM strategy for a crop (50%) of grade.** For the final assignment students must prepare an IPM strategy for a specific crop in a specific location, as an individual report. The project should relate to their PhD in some way (e.g., be on the same crop they are working on, or utilise control measures or agents that they are working with) and should describe an IPM system for a specific crop in a specific location. The control of multiple pests should be synthesised together to come up with something that is scientifically based but can be applied in practice in the chosen crop and location and should have a future perspective. The report should also include a section on how this relates to their PhD study system or research questions and how the knowledge they are generating would complement or contrast with the current available knowledge on IPM in the system that they are proposing in the report.

Ansvarig institution eller motsvarande

Institutionen för växtskyddsbiologi

Kompletterande uppgifter

Övrig information

This course is developed from an MSc course, BI1267 which provides the framework for the PhD course. All lectures, seminars and excursions are thus taken together with MSc Students.

PhD students will have a higher workload than MSc students for the final project, which they should complete individually, whilst MSc students will work together in groups for the final project.

Two to three excursions are planned as part of the course, giving students the opportunity to see first-hand IPM in practice. These include visiting different production systems such as Orchards, greenhouse horticultural vegetable production and open field agricultural systems, to allow students to evaluate IPM in the three major types of crop production system used in Sweden/EU. Information on the dates and times for each excursion is given at the start of the course each year.