Instructor(s): Joe Louis
Number of Credit Hours: 3
Cross-listings: ENTO 409
Prerequisites: 12 hrs. agricultural sciences and/or biological sciences including one course in entomology and one course in genetics.
Description: Explore resistance of crops to herbivorous arthropods. Investigate how insect behavior and physiology are affected by resistance, critically review current research on plant resistance genes, and the molecular, biochemical and physiological aspects of insect/microbe interactions with host plants.
Learning Outcomes/Course Objectives
- Learn the many ways plants defend themselves naturally, and how crops have been developed for pest resistance.
- Discover ways phytophagous insect behavior and physiology is affected by resistant plants.
- Learn the role of biotechnology and the use of transgenes for the development of plants with multiple-resistance genes.
- Assess current research on plant resistance genes, along with the molecular, biochemical and physiological aspects of insect/microbe interactions with host plants.