ECOFISIOLOGY AND PLANT BREEDING IN FRUIT CROPS
Academic Year 2021/2022 - 3° Year - Curriculum PRODUZIONI VEGETALI SOSTENIBILICredit Value: 9
Scientific field: AGR/03 - Arboriculture and Fruitculture
Course Language: Italian
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
Lectures (49 hours) and tutorials (28 hours) by case studies and/or seminars, also on line.
If teaching is given in a mixed formula or remotely, necessary changes may be introduced to what was previously stated in order to comply with the provided and reported syllabus.
Learning assessment may be done remotely if necessary.
As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline.
It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professors Giovanna Tropea Garzia and Anna De Angelis
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
n.1 - Arboricoltura Generale AA.VV. a cura di S. Sansavini - Patron Editore - Bologna
n.2 - Biotecnologie sostenibili AAVV. a cura di Galbiati et al.-Edagricole- Bologna
n.3 - Genetica e Genomica. G. Barcaccia, M. Falcinelli Vol. II e III - Liguori Editore - Napoli
n.4 - Elementi di Fisiologia Vegetale. N. Rascio. EdiSES - Napoli
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