Officinal plants.
Definition, market and production, dissemination; legislative and regulatory aspects
Propagation of medicinal plants: seed, agamic propagation, in vitro propagation
Medicinal plant section.
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.
Montain fruit tree Section.
Organography of trees and shrubs: morphology, functions and growth of root systems, as well as of vegetative organs and reproductive structures
Woody plants life and annual, vegetative and reproductive, cycles: stage of youth, stage of maturity and senescence. Budding, growth of sprouts, lignification, leaf drop, rest. Floral initiation and differentiation, flowering, pollination, fertilization, fruit set, fruit growth and ripening, alternate bearing. Trees and shrubs phenology.
Elements of shrubs and tree biology, physiology and genetic: dormancy and temperature requirements, photosynthesis and transpiration, plant growth regulators. Genetic resources, origin of cultivars and rootstocks, elements of tree crops genetic improvement.
Principles and cultivation techniques: plant propagation and nursery management, tree crops environmental suitability, orchard planting, soil management, fertilization, irrigation, pruning and training systems, harvesting, post-harvest handling.
Main tree crop species: pome and stone fruits, grape, minor fruit and berries.