20410509 - DEFENSE OF PLANTS OF AGRO-FOOD INTEREST

The course aims to provide students with a comprehensive picture of the packaging standards (materials and techniques) and the distribution of food issues (with particular emphasis on the shelf-life). In addition, the module aims to illustrate, briefly, the quality requirements of the food, mandatory and regulated (with the legislative references), contractual and voluntary and introduce the hazard analysis and the drafting of the HACCP Plan.
Postharvest pathology module aims to provide students with basic knowledge about the issues arising in post-harvest contamination of the products and vegetable foodstuffs by fungi and bacteria and their diagnosis. This knowledge, combined with the basic elements on the possibilities of alterations of control, are aimed at the management of the defense of the products during storage and the control and prevention of contamination in the post-harvest mycotoxin that can affect the quality and quantity of plant .
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Programme

- The concept of the disease triangle
- The different types of plant pathogens: viruses, bacteria, and fungi
- The diagnosis of plant pathogens- The infection cycle of a pathogen
- The basis of the innate defense strategies of plants
- The taxonomically important structures in the recognition of a pathogen
- The main symptoms of diseases in cultivated plants
- Identify the main factors causing disease in major agricultural plants
- Establish the key features of a pathogen's infection cycle
- Outline standard strategies for controlling plant diseases

Core Documentation

Presentations shown during the course.
Fondamenti di patologia vegetale
di Alberto Matta, Roberto Buonaurio, Aniello Scala
Editore: Pàtron


Reference Bibliography

Presentations shown during the course. Fondamenti di patologia vegetale di Alberto Matta, Roberto Buonaurio, Aniello Scala Editore: Pàtron

Attendance

it is strongly recommended to be present

Type of evaluation

The program is divided into three parts. The student has the option to choose from the following options: to take midterms, written or oral exams, related to one of the three sections of the course; to take a final exam according to what is stipulated in the official calendar.

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

- The concept of the disease triangle
- The different types of plant pathogens: viruses, bacteria, and fungi
- The diagnosis of plant pathogens- The infection cycle of a pathogen
- The basis of the innate defense strategies of plants
- The taxonomically important structures in the recognition of a pathogen
- The main symptoms of diseases in cultivated plants
- Identify the main factors causing disease in major agricultural plants
- Establish the key features of a pathogen's infection cycle
- Outline standard strategies for controlling plant diseases


Core Documentation

Presentations shown during the course.
Fondamenti di patologia vegetale
di Alberto Matta, Roberto Buonaurio, Aniello Scala
Editore: Pàtron

Attendance

it is strongly recommended to be present

Type of evaluation

The program is divided into three parts. The student has the option to choose from the following options: to take midterms, written or oral exams, related to one of the three sections of the course; to take a final exam according to what is stipulated in the official calendar.