Goal of this Form & Spreadsheet: Collect ideas of plant pathology papers that have been successfully used in classroom teaching at the undergraduate and/or graduate level.

Results are available in this spreadsheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ATgqp_Nl_woXHtSSIHc4hKDI0LML4DGpmo0ftcGYZvI/edit?usp=sharing 

This repository was started by Tiffany Lowe-Power at UC Davis. I am an assistant professor in plant pathology who was discontent with the plant pathology textbooks that I encountered. So I decided to build a "Biology of Plant Pathogens" course from scratch using the plant pathology literature as the literature. In this 10-week undergraduate course, I teach 8 pathogens (bacteria, fungi, oomycetes, and viruses). On Tuesdays, I give a lecture that covers background on the pathogen: evolutionary neighborhood, key epidemics, ecology/life cycle, plant infection process, molecular weapons, plant defenses, and other interesting information about the pathogen. Then students read the assigned research paper on the pathogen as homework (using the Perusall tool, which provides positive incentives to hold students accountable). On Thursdays, students break into groups of 3-4 and each group disects the motivation, appoach, and results of a set of Figs/Tables.

I created this repository to get and share ideas for papers that are well-suited to classroom teaching.