Course Outline
Institut Pertanian Bogor - ACICIS’ Agriculture Semester Program
Unit name Principles of Crop Protection (PTN200)
Department/ Plant Protection
Faculty Faculty of Agriculture
Course credit (SKS) 3 (2-3)
Offered in Odd semester
Pre-requisite -
Course Coordinator Dr. Ir. Supramana, [Link]
Language Indonesian English Both
Course description
This course discusses basic knowledge about protection of plants from pest infestation and
disease infection: importance, biomorphology, and ecology of plant pests; importance and
concept of plant disease; classification of plant disease; symptom and the damage caused by
plant pathogens; parasitism and disease development; the causal agents of plants disease; plant
defense against infection plant disease; plant disease epidemy and the factors involved;
principles of plant and disease management; and integrated pest management concept.
Practicum: Observation of general insect morphological characteristics; insect metamorphosis;
insect mouthparts; sympthom of damage by insect pests; observation of important orders and
families of insects, mites, slugs, and snails, and rodents; insect collection; observation of disease
symptom and plant damage as well as causal organism of plant disease.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the students will be able to identify pest and disease problems and
develop their management on the field.
Indicative assessment
Mid-term exam 35%
Final semester exam 35%
Laboratory exercise assignments 10%
Laboratory exercise exams 10%
Laboratory exercise quizzes 10%
Contact Hours
2 x 50 minutes for lecture (2 credits) and 3 x 50 minutes for laboratory exercise (1 credit) per
week
Readings
Agrios GN. 2005. Plant Pathology. New York: Academic Press.
Brown JF. 1980. A Course Manual in Plant Protection. Australian Vice-Chacellor
Committee.
Crop Protection Compendium (CPC). 2003. CABI.
Kalshoven LGE. 1981. The Pests of Crops in Indonesia. Revised and translated by van der
Laan PA. Jakarta: PT Ichtiar Baru-van Hoeve.
Lucas GB,Campbell L, Lucas TL. 1985. Introduction to Plant Diseases. The AV1 [Link]
Metcalf and Luckman. 1975. Introduction to Insect Pest Management.
Metcalf and Flint. 1962. Destructive and Useful Insects.
NAS. 1969. Principles of Plant and Animal Pest Control. Volume 3: Insect Pest
Management and Control.
Topics (subject to change)
Week Topics Sub-topics
1 Introduction to Plant Introduction course contract
Pests The importance of plant pests
Theory of pest incidence
Economic threshold and economic injury level
2 and 3 Animals Disturbing or Introduction to insects
Causing Damages on Insects mouthparts
Plant Insects development
Introduction to ordo and family of important insects
Mites, molusc, and rats
Life cycles of important plant pests
4 Factors Affecting Pest Internal factors
Live External (environmental) factors
5, 6, and Pest Control Method Regulation
7 Cultivation practices
Sanitation
Physical mechanic
Biological agents
Chemical
Integrated pest management
8 Introduction to History and development of phytopathology
Phytopathology Definition and terminology of phytopathology
9 Symptomatology External and internal symptom
Observation and survey
Koch Postulate
10 Factors Causing Plant Abiotic factors
Diseases Biotic factors:
Virus
Bacteria
Nematode
11 Infection Mechanism, Infection mechanism
Effect of Pathogen on Effect of pathogen on plant physiology
Plant Physiology, and Mechanism of plant resistance against pathogen
Mechanism of Plant
Resistance Against
Pathogen
12 Plant Disease Cycle, Plant disease cycle
Epidemiology, and Effects of environmental factors on plant disease
Environmental Factors Epidemiology
Pathogen survival
13 and 14 Concept and Methods Concept of plant disease management
of Plant Disease Methods of plant disease management : Regulation, Cultivation
Management practices, Biological agents, Chemical compound, integrated
pest management.
