93962 - PRECISE AND CONSERVATIVE PLANT DISEASES MANAGEMENT

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

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.

Contenuti

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.

Testi/Bibliografia

Lecture slides will be provided during the course.

Plant Pathology, Fifth Edition - George N Agrios – Academic Press - 2004

Metodi didattici

The course includes theoretical and practical lectures in the classroom, laboratory, glasshouses or experimental field.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

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.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Video projector, PCs, laboratories equipped with the most modern instruments for phyto-pathological diagnosis.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Claudio Ratti