Plan A, i.e. thesis only

Prerequisite: PlPa 5201 4 cr Biology of Plant Disease or equivalent and BioC 4125 Laboratory in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology or equivalent.

Total Plant Pathology (PlPa) course credits needed: 14

• PlPa 5302/8302 (3 credits) Genomics of Plant-Associated Microbes Must be taken in conjunction with PlPa 5300 Current Topics in Molecular Plant Pathology.
• PlPa 5300 (1 credit) Current Topics in Molecular Plant Pathology**
• One of the two following courses:
  

• PlPa 5301 (3 credits) Plant Genomics
• PlPa 8103 (3 credits) Physiological and Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
  

• PlPa 8200 (1 credit) Seminar
• Six additional credits are required in Plant Pathology courses.
• Thesis credits PlPa 8777 (10 credits) Thesis Credits, Master's
  

To meet the Graduate School Master's Degree requirements, 6 credits are needed in one or more related fields outside the major. Suggested courses:

• Agro 8241 (3 credits) Molecular and Cellular Genetics of Plant Improvement
• BioC 5361 (3 credits) Microbial Genomics
• EEB 5221 (3 credits) Molecular and Genomic Evolution
• GCD 5036 (3 credits) Molecular Cell Biology
• Pbio 514 (3 credits) Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
  

** Required for students taking Genomics of Plant-Associated Microbes. Other students may take Current Topics in Molecular Plant Pathology alone.