202-507 Dairy Systems
This subject outlines the principles and methods used to identify and manage major pests and pathogens causing plant and animal disease; and in particular their applications in securing food production, quality and trade.
Topics include:
- methods for efficient and accurate disease diagnosis;
- biosecurity, quarantine and food trade barriers;
- applied technologies and transgenics for developing pest and disease resistance;
- impacts of pests and diseases on the natural ecology;
- postharvest and food storage diseases and impacts; and
- innovative and integrated management control strategies.
This subject is taught by Julian Hill