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Dec 08, 2025
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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog
Plant Pathology (MS)
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The Plant Pathology graduate program offers a full range of courses leading to the M.S. degree. These cover diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, nematodes, and viruses; bacterial and fungal genetics; disease control, diagnosis, ecology, epidemiology, and physiology; host plant resistance to disease; plant pathology methods; plant tissue culture and regeneration; plant cytogenetics; and student seminar, special problems and topics, and research.
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Course Requirements
Candidates may choose to complete the thesis option or the report option. Most students in our Department choose the thesis option and sign up for PLPTH 899 . Students who do not desire the intensive research experience may choose to do a report instead, and will sign up for PLPTH 898 . Because research experience is considered a prelude for a Ph.D., the report option is sometimes considered a “terminal degree;” i.e., students who complete the report option are much less likely to be accepted into a Ph.D. program. It is recommended only for those students who do not intend to later pursue a Ph.D.
Students who start in the research option and have taken PLPTH 899 for credit, and then switch to a report option, sign up for 2 credits of PLPTH 898 and leave the PLPTH 899 credit on their transcripts; however, the PLPTH 899 credit does not count toward the 30 credit-hour minimum requirement for the M.S. degree. Thesis Option Courses
PLPTH 899 Research in Plant Pathology for the M.S. degree (6 credit hours minimum, 8 credit hours maximum; students can take more than 8 credit hours, but only 8 credit hours will count toward the degree and only 8 credit hours can be listed on the Program of Study). Report Option Courses
2 credit hours Total Hours Required for Master’s: 30
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