The department offers a full range of courses leading to the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. 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; biotechnology; genomic applications; bioinformatics; plant-virus-vector interactions; plant molecular biology; student seminar; special problems and topics; and research.