To provide participants with the knowledge and skills to define the role of the CD-ROM in identifying blackberry taxa and explain why correct identification is important for practice control programs and particularly in monitoring the effectiveness of rust and chemicals.

• Use fresh and preserved samples and the CD-ROM identification tool to distinguish features and taxa
• Identify the requirements for and importance of submitting samples to herbaria for formal identification.
• Discuss correct application of chemical for effective control.
• Discuss the importance of rust in control.

• Blackberry - the significance, control, the role of the CD-ROM.
• Loading the key onto computers.
• Understanding characteristics and the subgenus.
• Identification exercise.
• Correct application of chemical.
• Preparation / collection of samples for herbarium.

Participants receive notes and manual.

This course is delivered in the classroom.