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Objectives of Education
The Applied Biology Major at Chonnam National University is composed of 3 main fields: Plant Pathology, Entomology, and Stress Biology. The educational goal at Applied Biology Major is to foster professional individuals who learn both basic and applied sciences on plant response to pathogens, agricultural pests, and environmental stresses that significantly diminish plant and crop productivity.
Plant Pathology field focuses mainly on plant-pathogen (bacteria, fungi, virus) interactions, molecular genetics to understand mechanisms and biological control of plant diseases, and ecology and evolutionary biology of plant-associated microbes. Entomology field focuses mainly on the damage analysis and integrated pest management by the fundamental studies of classification, phylogeny, chitin biotechnology, and ecology of insect pests. Interactions between microbial natural enemy and insect pests are also studied for the eventual biological control of agricultural insect pests. Stress Biology field focuses mainly on the identification and determination of potential genes involved in plant responses to environmental stresses (drought, high and low temperatures, salt, UV), which would provide novel means to develop stress-tolerant agronomic crops.
The major's curricula cover all necessary subjects for basic and applied sciences. We will educate students with a vision of becoming leading scientists in future agriculture.
Faculty members- Young-Cheol Kim (Ph.D.) Plant Pathology
- Yeon-Soo Han (Ph.D.) Insect Pathology
- Hunseung Kang (Ph.D.) Plant Molecular Biology
- Cheol-Soo Kim (Ph.D.) Plant Functional Genomics
- Kwang-Yeol Yang (Ph.D.) Molecular Plant Pathology
- Iksoo Kim (Ph.D.) Insect Molecular Phylogenetics and Ecology
- Yasuyuki Arakane (Ph.D.) Insect chitin biotechnology
- Rae-Dong Jeong (Ph.D.) Plant Virology