- Docente: Lucietta Betti
- Credits: 4
- SSD: AGR/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Biological Sciences (cod. 8012)
Learning outcomes
Acquiring the elementary notions of the main plant diseases caused
by viruses, viroids, phytoplasms, bacteria and fungi; learning how
pathogens attack plants and how plants defend themselves against
pathogens.
Course contents
The concept of disease and physiopathological bases. General
features of plant pathogens (viruses, viroids, phytoplasmas,
bacteria, protozoa, straminipila, fungi, nematodes, parasitic
higher plants). Comparative pathogenesis of infectious diseases.
Plant defence mechanisms, biochemical and genetic bases of
resistance to pathogens and transgenic plants. Diagnosis and
control of plant disease. Environmental factors that cause plant
diseases.
Readings/Bibliography
Belli G., 2007. Elementi di patologia vegetale. Piccin Nuova
Libraria, Padova, 407 pp.
Agrios G.N., 2005. Plant pathology. Academic press, San Diego,
California, 922 pp.
Teaching methods
32 hours of theoretical lessons.
Assessment methods
Oral examination consisting of a question chosen by the student and
two other questions concerning the program. The chosen topic can be
presented in powerpoint and this option will be positively
considered.
Teaching tools
Multimedia material used during the lessons will be available to
students.
Office hours
See the website of Lucietta Betti