HorticultureModule Vegetable and flower cultivation
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: Cherubino LEONARDIExpected Learning Outcomes
Provide to the students the know how fundamental to cultivate and valorise, economically important vegetable, flower and ornamental crops. Provide the knowledge related to the choice and management of the factors and agricultural techniques affecting quantitative, qualitative and timing aspects of production and of shelf life.
Course Structure
Lectures, practical activity and discussion of case study, field visit
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.
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
- Presentation of the course (definition and scopes). - Knowledge of horticultural and floricultural sector: historical development, diffusion and importance, major agro-systems, the productive chains. - Characteristics and classification of vegetable, flower and ornamental crops - The produce: typologies, characteristics, quality profile. - Crop needs related to the climate, the soil, the nugtrition. - Varieties and cultivars; objectives and methods of breeding; registration and protection of plant varieties. - Produce diversification - Crop rotation and intercropping. - The process of cultivation: soil preparation, crop planting, work on the plant and other components agro horticulture. - Systems of specific interest methods and techniques of cultivation for the horticulture and floriculture. - Harvesting: ripening stage and mode. - Post-harvest Operations: Product adaptation to commercial standards; precooling and temporary storage. - Major industrial processing mode of the vegetables.
Textbook Information
1 - Lecture Slides
2 - Appunti delle lezioni La Malfa G., Noto G. Romano D. Leonardi C.
3 - Pardossi A., Prosdocimi Gianquinto G., Santamaria P., Incrocci L,, 2018. Orticoltura: Principi e pratica. Edizioni Agricole di New Business Media - Milano. 371 pp.
4 - Accati Garibaldi, E., 1993. Trattato di Floricoltura - Edagricole, Bologna.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | • Presentazione del corso (definizione ed ambiti). | 1 - |
| 2 | • Conoscenza del comparto orticolo e floricolo: evoluzione storica, diffusione e importanza, principali agrosistemi, le filiere produttive. | 1 - 2 - |
| 3 | • Caratteristiche e classificazione delle piante orticole, floreali, ornamentali. | 3 - 4 - |
| 4 | • I prodotti ortofloricoli: tipologie, caratteristiche, profilo di qualità. | 1 - 2 - |
| 5 | • Esigenze delle piante ortofloricole rispetto al clima, al terreno, all’alimentazione. | 1 - 2 - |
| 6 | • Varietà e cultivar; obiettivi del miglioramento genetico; registrazione e tutela delle novità vegetali. | 1 - 2 - |
| 7 | • L’innovazione di prodotto | 1 - |
| 8 | • Avvicendamenti e consociazioni. | 1 - 3 - 4 - |
| 9 | Il vivaismo ortofloricolo • Il processo di coltivazione: preparazione del terreno, impianto della coltura, interventi sulla pianta e sulle altre componenti dell’agroecosistema ortofloricolo. | 1 - 3 - 4 - |
| 10 | • Sistemi, metodi e tecniche di coltivazione di specifico interesse per l’orticoltura e la floricoltura (concimazione, irrigazione, fertirrigazione). | 1 - 3 - 4 - |
| 11 | • Gestione della raccolta e della post-raccolta | 1 - 3 - 4 - |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Mid term test possible, but not mandatory, Written test and ora examination
Learning assessment may be done remotely if necessary
The vote follows the following scheme:
Unsuitable
Knowledge and understanding of the topic: Important shortcomings. Significant inaccuracies
Analysis and synthesis skills: Irrelevant. Frequent generalizations. Inability to synthesize
Use of references: Completely inappropriate
18-20
Knowledge and understanding of the topic: At the threshold level. Obvious imperfections
Ability to analyze and synthesize: Just enough skills
Use of references: As appropriate
21-23
Knowledge and understanding of the topic: Routine knowledge Analysis and synthesis skills: It is capable of correct analysis and synthesis. Argue logically and consistently
Use of references: Use standard references
24-26
Knowledge and understanding of the topic: Good knowledge
Analysis and synthesis skills: Has good analysis and synthesis skills. The arguments are expressed consistently
Use of references: Use standard references
27-29
Knowledge and understanding of the topic: Knowledge more than good
Ability to analyze and synthesize: He has considerable abilities of analysis and synthesis
Use of references: Has explored the topics
30-30L
Knowledge and understanding of the topic: Excellent knowledge
Ability to analyze and synthesize: He has considerable abilities of analysis and synthesis.
Use of references: Important insights.