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Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture PLPA 5004

Sustainable agricultural practices are crucial to address food security as climate change and the increasing world population continue to challenge food production. Several aspects of agricultural sustainability are important to achieve increased food production, including; maintaining soil fertility, managing water, and plant genetic resources, reducing the environmental impact of agriculture, and restoring degraded lands. To keep up with the growing food demand, there has been an increased use of fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture; however, these chemicals when used in large quantities harm the environment and limit the beneficial activities of plant-associated microbes. Millions of microorganisms live in soil and plants, and many of them have been shown to increase plant biomass without supplementary fertilizers or the use of pesticides to provide protection against plant pathogens. This course is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students interested in learning about beneficial soil microbes, how to identify such microbes, and how these microbes can be harnessed to improve the sustainability of our agricultural production systems. prereq: Basic microbiology is required: BIOL 1961 or PLPA1005. Instructor consent for Grads without either prereq course listed.