PIANTE OFFICINALI

General Module

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017/2018

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in FOREST AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS

Disciplinary Sector:

Horticulture and Floriculture

Is part of:

OFFICINAL PLANTS AND MOUNTAIN FRUIT TREE CULTIVATION

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

SCARPA Grazia Maria

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Minimum hours of attendance:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Students should have been previously enrolled in a undergraduate level course in Chemistry, Botanics, plant physiology and plant genetics

AF code:

A001706

Teaching period

Single Annual Cycle

Objectives

The objective of the course give the students the basic principles for the cultivation of medicinal plants.
At the end of the course students will have acquired knowledge of botany, plant physiology, genetics and agronomic techniques applied to the cultivation of medicinal species

Contents

Officinal plants: definition, market and production, dissemination; legislative and regulatory aspects
Propagation of medicinal plants: seed, agamic propagation, in vitro propagation
Medicinal plants uses: food, industrial and secondary metabolites
Special part: saffron, helichrysum, rosemary, sage. For the selected species the description of the origin and diffusion, cultivation and utilization will be carried out

Recommended Bibliography

V. Marzi, G. De Mastro: Piante Officinali. Coltivazione, trattamenti di post-raccolta, contenuti in principi attivi, impieghi in vari settori industriali ed erboristici 2008. Editore:Ricchiuto Editore

L. Odello: La distillazione delle essenze. Ed. La Casa Verde

A.D. Atzei et al.: Le piante nelle terapie tradizionali della Sardegna. Edizioni Della Torre

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