- Docente: Claudio Ratti
- Credits: 3
- SSD: AGR/12
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Precise and Sustainable Agriculture (cod. 5705)
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from Sep 18, 2024 to Dec 04, 2024
Learning outcomes
At course completion, the student possesses knowledge on: the principles of environmental sustainability of integrated and biological defense against plant pathogens; technological and scientific innovation useful to prevent, monitor and control crop pathogens; the application of the most suitable solutions to protect crops from biotic stress in open fields and in controlled environments. In particular, the student possesses the skills to: organize a specific plant health protection plan for each crop, based on environmental and economic sustainability; quantify the results of applied control measures, and vary the adopted solutions and parameters in order to optimize their effects; recognize the strengths and limitations of scientific and technological applications that research offers the agronomist, in order to make the most of his/her potential and provide realistic data for their improvement.
Course contents
Presentation and aims of the course.
General principles of environmental sustainability of integrated and biological plant protection from pathogens; plant diseases management based on the concept of spatio-temporal variability.
Technological and scientific innovation to prevent, monitor and control crop pathogens: Decision support systems, monitoring, remote sensing, genetic resistance, non-chemical methods.
New tools and strategies based on biological agents and innovative natural compounds for disease control.
Readings/Bibliography
Lecture slides will be provided during the course.
Plant Pathology, Fifth Edition - George N Agrios – Academic Press - 2004
Teaching methods
The course includes theoretical and practical lectures in the classroom, laboratory, glasshouses or experimental field.
Assessment methods
The examination is oral and will contain a series of questions to ascertain the student's theoretical knowledge of the issues presented in the course.
Teaching tools
Video projector, PCs, laboratories equipped with the most modern instruments for phyto-pathological diagnosis.
Office hours
See the website of Claudio Ratti
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.