Tropical Plant Pathology
INSTRUCTOR INFO:
Instructor: Dr. Jean Beagle Ristaino
Address: Room 2419 Gardner Hall, Dept of Plant Pathology, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
Phone: 919 515-3257
Fax: 919 515-7716
E-mail: Jean_Ristaino@ncsu.edu
Costa Rican instructors: Dr. Luis Gomez, Arturo Brenes and Roberto Valverde, University of Costa Rica.
Room: 2104 Toxicology Conference Room, Centennial Campus
Mondays: 2:30 PM-3:30 PM
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A graduate level course in Tropical Plant Pathology offered in the spring. Lectures on the agriculture in the tropics and tropical diseases on important tropical crops including cacao, banana, potato and coffee will be given. We will also discuss trade issues that are relevant to US and Central American farmers. Students will also learn conversational travel Spanish. We will use Dave Thurston’s book on Tropical Plant Pathology as a reference and additional papers provided by individual instructors.
We will take a 9-day trip to Costa Rica during spring break March 2-8, 2008 for a field class in tropical Plant Pathology. We will tour coffee, banana, pineapple, tropical fruit, cacao and vegetable farms in the country and learn about the disease, social and political issues facing farmers in the developing world.
FUNDING Funds provided by USDA CPHST, NCSU CALS, and NSF International Programs.
2007 Class Trip Photo to Costa Rica
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