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Preamble
(Plant Protection)
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courses, both theoretical and practical, has been reduced with a view to enable the
scholars concentrate on their research work towards achieving significant
transferable technologies.
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Plant Pathology.
Two Master’s programme courses have been done away with, viz.,
Mushroom Production Technology and Insect Vectors of Plant Viruses and other
Pathogens. The erstwhile nomenclature of the (masters and doctoral) courses on
Bacteria is changed to ‘Plant Pathogenic Prokaryotes’ and ‘Advances in Plant
Pathogenic Prokaryotes’, respectively. Since the exploitation of Botanicals for the
pathogens’ suppression and the disease management is gaining ground, the aspects
pertaining to them find a place in a course. A course on Plant Nematology is made
a compulsory course at master’s level.
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Nematology
. The contents of each course have been considerably refurbished in
line with the developments. Considering the growing realization that plant
nematodes are a major biotic constraints in the cultivation of crops raised under
protected cultivation regimes, a new course on IPM in Protected Cultivation has
been formulated: the same has been cross-listed with Entomology and Plant
Pathology.
The reader of this note can see that this preamble is meant to give a bird’s view about
our BSMA Committee’s recommendations 
vis-a-vis 
the
 
three disciplines of Entomology,
Plant Pathology and Nematology. The ‘Courses at a Glance’ provided in the beginning of
each discipline will instantly tell the changes from the previous dispensation of 2009 (the
first BSMA effort). There is no gainsaying the fact that the syllabi of each course may be
consulted for a larger use.
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Plant Protection
– Entomology
Restructured and Revised
Syllabi of Post-graduate Programmes
Vol. 1