One of our assets is the ability of our department’s students and faculty to collaborate to provide students top-ranked educational and research opportunities in a collegial and friendly atmosphere. The following summarizes the history, mission, and programs of the department.
One of the major goals of plant pathology is to support growth of healthy plants, whether as individual landscaping plants to beautify our living spaces, as fields of crop plants to sustain our food supply, or as regional populations of plants, such as forests, to maintain an inhabitable ecosystem. The value of plant pathology to human society, the importance of research on plant disease, and the need for training future plant pathologists is explained in the video "Plant Pathology.
