1Understand concepts of disease and disease assessment; physiology, genetics, and molecular biology of host-pathogen interactions.

2Understand the current state of knowledge in plant pathology from applied to molecular plant pathogen interactions.

3Understand importance of plant disease in food security.

4Understand plant pathogens and how they cause diseases; the biological and pathological characteristics of major pathogens; Understand pathogenesis of bacterial, fungal, nematode and viral diseases.

5Understand plant disease resistance pathways, genetic resistance mechanisms starting form gene for gene interactions.

6Understand resistance to necrotrophic plant pathogens.

7Understand biotechnological approaches to plant diseases resistance.

8Identify and describe an economically important plant disease.