The course aims to provide the tools for assessing the quality of the grass production and to know the main factors controlling the quality of products during the production cycle.
The fruit quality productions module aims to define the multiplicity of the meaning of the concept of quality of fruit production and to provide knowledge of the main factors controlling the quality of products during the production cycle. In relation to the main types of agricultural woody crops, will be addressed aspects of the biology and physiology of the development mainly responsible for quality determinism and the synthesis of secondary metabolites in the fruit, and aspects of the most appropriate cultivation techniques for the production of quality fruit production in relation to environmental conditions and market needs.
The fruit quality productions module aims to define the multiplicity of the meaning of the concept of quality of fruit production and to provide knowledge of the main factors controlling the quality of products during the production cycle. In relation to the main types of agricultural woody crops, will be addressed aspects of the biology and physiology of the development mainly responsible for quality determinism and the synthesis of secondary metabolites in the fruit, and aspects of the most appropriate cultivation techniques for the production of quality fruit production in relation to environmental conditions and market needs.
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The course will concern the concept of quality in the primary productions as well as the methods of environmentally friendly productions. In particular, we will illustrate the knowledge on the state of the art of the fruit trees productive cycle and the main agronomic techniques of orchard environmentally friendly management. Particular attention will be paid to the knowledge of the fruits, their biochemical composition, and qualitative traits both as a fresh or transformed commodities in the main economically relevant fruit species (apple, pear, peach , apricot, cherry, dried fruits, Citrus spp). Such knowledge is necessary to appreciate the orchard management choices with reference to the economic destination of the products (consumption or industrial transformation). The student will be able to perform a critical evaluation of the agronomic techniques to obtaining high quality fruit productions in the maximum of the environmental respect.