HEALTH IMPROVEMENT AND PLANT CERTIFICATION

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020/2021

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Disciplinary Sector:

Plant Pathology

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

PROTA Vanda Assunta

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Minimum hours of attendance:

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

Students is preferable have taken the Plant pathology lessons as the present course represents a particular aspect

AF code:

40003426

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

At the end of the course, the student will have to take an oral exam session, relating to the topics covered in order to verify the learning of the most valid tools to deal with the problems related to the systemic diseases described during the course. notions of preventive and control nature both in a protected environment and in the open field as well as having learned the best known diagnostic and remediation techniques

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

The main objective of this module is to increase the technical abilities of the students in monitoring and controlling the most important sistemic diseases (symptoms, etiology, epidemiology; improve the knowledges about the deterrence of sistemic disease control on nursery and on field; to study the most spread thecnics in plants sanitary selection and their recovery. In addition, practical cases will be treated with the application of laboratory techniques commonly used in the diagnosis of infectious diseases, to which the students of the course will participate actively.
Finally, visits to the field and in a protected environment will be organized for the recognition of specific symptoms

Contents

1. General characteristics of viruses and phytoplasmas. Infectious agents of diseases that can affect crops of agrarian interest. Infection process and pathogen-plant relationships. Etiology nomenclature and classification. Epidemipology and transmission through vectors. Macroscopic diagnosis and study of symptoms: latency and recovery. Quarantine diseases. New health emergencies. Genetic-health certification. 3 CFU
2. Laboratory diagnosis. Description of enzyme immunoenzymatic ELISA, biomolecular PCR, RT-PCR, Nested. Virus recovery techniques: meristematic explantation and micropropagation. 0.5 CFU
3. Description of the main virus and phytoplasma diseases in the world and more particularly in our region. 1,5 CFU
4. Practical field and laboratory exercises. 2 CFU

Recommended Bibliography

Power point slides showed during the course.
Scientific contributions.
""Elementi di Patologia vegetale" di Giuseppe Belli. Ed. Piccin.
Elementi di Virologia vegetale, di L. Giunchedi, M. Conti, D. Gallitelli, G.P. Martelli. Ed. Piccin.
Fondamenti di Patologia vegetale A.Matta, R.Buonaurio, F. Favaron, A.Scala, F.Scala

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

1 CFU Frontal lessons with the help of power point presentation. 4 CFU
Practical laboratory exercises for the execution of the most important diagnostic tests: ELISA, RT-PCR, Q-PCR. 2 CFU

Finally, field activities will be held for the study and recognition of symptoms from systemic diseases. 1 CFU

Contacts/More Information

The teacher is available to receive students, even those in student mobility, who need all the information needed to prepare the exam, subject to agreements made
Mail (vprota@uniss.it)

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