Department of Agronomy

Teaching

Jugulam teaching responsibilities include graduate and undergraduate courses in weed physiology and herbicide resistance, with focus on connecting biochemical pathways in plants with herbicide mode of action and mechanisms of weed resistance to herbicides. Other teaching-related duties include serving on graduate student advisory committees, supervising undergraduate research projects, and undergraduate student advising.

Courses Taught

  • AGRON 822: Herbicide Interactions - graduate course (Spring semester of odd years)

    This course consists of lecture-discussion with power point presentation on several aspects of physiology and biochemistry of herbicides and plants. In addition, herbicide and soil interactions, the fate of herbicide in plants and soil will also be discussed. Comprehensive information about the evolution of herbicide resistance, development of herbicide-resistant crops and consequences of herbicide resistance will also be reviewed. Students are required to prepare several assignments including a review of published papers, writing grant proposals and in-class presentations and discussions in addition to four examinations.

  • AGRON/ENTOM/PLPTH 732: Introduction to Plant Resistance to Pests - inter-disciplinary graduate/undergraduate course (Fall semester of even years)

    This is a team-taught course including three disciplines, i.e. Agronomy, Entomology and Plant Pathology. The course material includes the history and definition of terms used in plant resistance to pest arthropods, pathogens and herbicides, and the differences and similarities between each. Gene for gene relationships between plants and pests, pathogens or herbicides, and qualitative versus quantitative resistance will be discussed. Basic concepts of induced versus constitutive resistance, biotic and abiotic factors are affecting the expression of resistance, similarities in the molecular genetics of resistance, marker-assisted selection, and quantitative trait loci, ecology and deployment of conventional and transgenic resistance genes in integrated pest management will also be discussed.

  • AGRON 600 (Topics): Crop and Weed Resistance to Herbicides - graduate/undergraduate course (Fall semester of even years)

    This course will explore recent advancements in the development of herbicide-tolerant technology in crop species. The natural evolution of resistance to herbicides in weed species will also be discussed. Furthermore, the methodologies to determine target-site and non-target-site resistance in weeds will be taught. The lecture topics will consist of a discussion with a power point presentation and group discussions. Students are required to prepare several assignments including a review of published papers, and in-class presentations and discussions in addition to one final examination

  • AGRON 650 (Integrated Weed Management) - 2012-2015