Pesticide Science is one of the important courses for the students in Plant Protection discipline to study comprehensive theory knowledge and the basic experimental skill as well as the essential method for analyzing and solving the problems. The main contents include the agricultural chemicals, biogenic pesticides and other pesticides, the preparation formulation processing and the scientific applying technology, the resistance of pests to pesticides and the management of resistance, the catabolic behavior of pesticides in environment and its influence on the ecosystem, the method for the evaluation of control efficacy of pesticides in the field and the technology for bioassay of pesticides against the pests in laboratory and quality testing and so on. The course will focus on the agricultural pharmacy theory and the application technology, and pay attention to the classification of insecticides, fungicides and herbicides. The basic mechanisms of the pesticides to control pests will be specially introduced. And also supplement the new contents concerning the screening and application of novel pesticides and their environmental toxicology. Moreover, the materials and the related information in teaching can combine the basic theory with the new knowledge from the development of agriculture pharmacy discipline in recent years.
Agriculture
农业科学是研究农业发展的自然规律和经济规律的科学，因涉及农业环境、作物和畜牧生产、农业工程和农业经济等多种科学而具有综合性。林业科学和水产科学有时也包括在广义的农业科学范畴之内。
