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Plant Disease Notebook assignment offers students a way to customize
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KINDS OF QUESTIONS USUALLY ASKED AT THE DISEASE NOTEBOOK FINAL INTERVIEW
- Where is your goals statement? (for those who forgot to include it :-) ) How does your choice of material relate to your goals?
- What are some of the most common and important diseases of …?
- What kind of damage does this disease do?
- How can this disease be diagnosed? What are identifying characteristics? How can you tell the difference between diseases A and B? What other problems could be confused with this?
- What are some of the best resources for diagnosis of diseases of …?
- Where can you find information on the biology of ...? What time of the year does this disease tend to be most serious? Under what kind of weather conditions? Are there any specific growth stages of the plant that are particularly susceptible? Any predisposing factors? How does the pathogen spread? What are the conditions required for infection and colonization? How or where does the pathogen survive the winter or off-season?
- Where can you find specific management recommendations for …? What kind of options does a grower have for the control of …?
- What are some of the disease management considerations that a grower should pay attention to in establishing this particular crop? What kind of monitoring and actions may be required in the course of the growing season? What would an integrated disease management program for this crop look like?
- Do you have your Disease Collection list? Anything to offset any deficiencies elsewhere?
- What questions should I ask that I haven't asked yet? What aspects should we discuss that we haven't discussed yet?
- What grade do you feel you deserve or earned with your Disease Notebook? What are the strong and the weak points?
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