New Science and Technology in Crop Protection.

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This course provides information and knowledge on current and emerging scientific discoveries and technologies posed to revolutionize crop protection. The basic science underlying techniques such as CRISPR-Cas9 and its derived techniques, broad-spectrum and durable disease resistance strategies, genetic engineering and minichromosome technology, artificial intelligence & precision agriculture, microbiomes, biocontrols, and biofertilizers, phytonanotechnology, RNAi and Bioclay, synthetic biology and novel pesticides, as well as modeling, genomic, and phenomic selection will be explained. The benefits, limitations and regulations of those technologies to be applied in crop protection will be discussed. The course is targeted at traditional students as well as industry stakeholders who seek continuing education. Dual-listing: PPTH 445 .