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Diseases of Horticultural Crops and their Management

By Prof. Bireshwar Sinha   |   Department of Plant Pathology, School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagaland University, Nagaland- 797106
Learners enrolled: 580
Under plant pathology the course entitled Diseases of Horticultural crops and their management deals with the causes of the diseases and its management on horticultural crops. In this course students will get the idea on the importance of the diseases which are causing losses to horticultural crops. They will get an idea on the development of disease, host-pathogen interaction, pathogen environment relation, pathogen survival and also will have an immense knowledge about the different management practices of the important diseases on various horticultural crops.  
Summary
Course Status : Upcoming
Course Type : Core
Language for course content : English
Duration : 8 weeks
Category :
  • Agricultural and Food Engineering
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate
Start Date : 07 Jul 2025
End Date : 31 Oct 2025
Enrollment Ends : 31 Aug 2025
Exam Date :
NCrF Level   : 4.5
Industry Details : Teaching, Deveopment, Management

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Course layout


WEEK 1:

  1. Diseases of Potato and its management 
  2. Diseases of Chilli and its management
  3. Diseases of Curcubits and its management


WEEK 2:

  1. Diseases of Crucifers and its management
  2. Diseases of Brinjal &Bhindi and their management
  3. Diseases of Beans

WEEK 3:

  1. Onion Diseases and its management 
  2. Diseases of Tomato and its management
  3. Diseases of Guava and its management


WEEK 4:

  1. Diseases of Banana caused by Bacteria and Virus
  2. Diseases of Bananas caused by Fungi and Nematodes
  3. Diseases of grapes and its management


WEEK 5:

  1. Pomegranate diseases and its management
  2. Diseases of mango and its management
  3. Disease caused by Fungi in Apple


WEEK 6:

  1. Important diseases of Coconut and its management
  2. Diseases of Citrus and its management
  3. Diseases of betel vine, mulberry, oil palm and its management


WEEK 7:

  1. Coffee Diseases
  2. Diseases of Tea and its management
  3. Rose Diseases and its management



WEEK 8:

  1. Study on Diseases of Chilli and Beans
  2. Study on Diseases of grapes and Citrus
  3. Study on Diseases of Onion and Guava



WEEK 9:

  1. Study on Diseases of Banana and Papaya
  2. Study on Diseases of Pomegranate
  3. Study on Diseases of Mango



WEEK 10:

  1. Study on Diseases of Brinjal & Bhindi
  2. Study on Diseases of Potato and Tomato
  3. Study on Diseases of crucifers and curcubits

Books and references

1. Agrios, G.N. 2005: Plant Pathology. 5th Ed. San Diego: Academic Press.  p. 922.

2. Mali, J.B. and Joi, M.B. 1985: Control of Seed Microflora of Chilli (Capsicum annuum) with Fungicides. Curr. Res. Rep., 1: 8-10.

3. Colucci, S.J. and G.J. Holmes. 2010: Downy Mildew of Cucurbits. The Plant Health Instructor. DOI: 10.1094/PHI-I-2010-0825-01.

4. Hariharasubramanian,V. and Badami, R.S. 2008: A Virus Disease of Cucurbits from India. J. Phytopathology. 51(3): 274-279.

5. Hagedorn, D. J., and Inglis, D. A. 1986: Handbook of bean diseases. Coop. Ext. Publ., Univ. of Wis.-Ext., Madison.


Instructor bio

Prof. Bireshwar Sinha

Department of Plant Pathology, School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagaland University, Nagaland- 797106
Prof. Bireshwar Sinha is a Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, School of Agricultural Sciences, Nagaland University, Nagaland. He finished his PhD. from BCKVV, West Bengal. He completed many research projects funded by ICAR, DBT Govt. of India, DBT-RA etc. One of the major achievements that Dr. Bireshwar made was regarding the control measure. He proved that heat treatment of the ginger rhizome seeds at 47℃ for 30 minutes followed by treatments with Trichoderma spp @10g/kg rhizome gives best control followed by chemical treatments and treatments with garlic extracts. He has professional experience of teaching B.Sc(Agri), MSc(Plant Pathology) and PhD. He also has experiences in giving lectures on Trainers Training Programmes and is presently guiding 3 scholars. His list of publications includes - Referred Journal with NAAS ID-14, News Letter/ Non referred journal/ Farm Magazine with ISSN -15, Book Chapter-2 and News Paper article-10. Dr. Bireshwar submitted 22 Trichoderma spp and one Fusarium to NCBI gene bank with accession number in collaboration with NCIPM, New Delhi (2014-2015).

Course certificate

Hi Everyone, 

All courses offered by CEC in the July 2025 Semester reflect different grading policies and certificate criteria on their Course Pages. Please make it uniform for all courses and update the following criteria under the Course Certificate Section-


- Internal Assessment- Weekly assessments released in the course shall be considered for Internal Marks and will carry 30 percent for the Overall Result. Out of all weekly assignments, the best/top five scores will be considered for the final Internal Assessment marks.

- End-term Assessment - The final exam shall be conducted by NTA, and will carry 70 percent for the overall Result.

- All students who obtain 40% marks in the internal assessment and 40% marks in the end-term proctored exam separately will be eligible for the SWAYAM Credit Certificate.



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