ECOFISIOLOGY AND PLANT BREEDING IN FRUIT CROPS
Academic Year 2018/2019 - 3° Year - Curriculum PRODUZIONI VEGETALI SOSTENIBILICredit Value: 9
Scientific field: AGR/03 - Arboriculture and Fruitculture
Taught classes: 49 hours
Exercise: 28 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
Providing specific knowledge on traditional methods of plant breeding and new biotechnologies applied to the fruit crops.
Providing knowledge on the physiological mechanisms that govern relations between fruit plants and environment, with particular reference to the effects of light, temperature, water availability and nutrients
Course Structure
Lecture class and lab practice
Detailed Course Content
Origin and biodiversity in fruit crops
Plant breeding traditional methods in fruit crops: selection, induced mutagenesis, cross and hybridization
Biotechnology in plant breeding: in vitro culture, genetic transformation, molecular markers
Photosynthesis
Transport and role of photosynthesis products
Water - plant relationships: root uptake, phloem transport, transpiration
Environmental factors of development: Light (Photomorphogenesis and photoperiod ) gravity, temperature
Mineral nutrition
Plant hormones
Textbook Information
testo n.1 - Arboricoltura Generale AA.VV. a cura di S. Sansavini - Patron Editore - Bologna
testo n.2 - Genetica e Genomica. G. Barcaccia, M. Falcinelli Vol. II e III - Liguori Editore - Napoli
testo n.3 - Fisiologia Vegetale. L. Taiz, E. Zwaiger 2° edizione - PICCIN – Padova
testo n.4 - Fisiologia delle piante. A Alpi, P. Pupillo, C. Riganò. EdiSES - Napoli
testo n. 5 - Botanica Generale. S. Tonzig, E. Marrè - 2° edizione, Vol II - Casa editrice Ambrosiana – Milano
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