79459 - Integrated Plant Disease Management

Academic Year 2026/2027

  • Docente: Elena Baraldi
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: AGRI-05/B
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in International Horticultural Science (cod. 6784)

Learning outcomes

The course emphasizes the importance and need of the integrated management of plant diseases within the integrated pest management approach, with the least possible disruption to the agro-ecosystemsand the least hazard to people, animals, and environment. The course will enable the students: to acquaint with the principles of an integrated approach to plant disease management; to become familiar with the basic principles involving fungal, bacterial, phytoplasma and viral based diseases in plants; to acquire knowledge of the environmental factors influencing plant diseases, to gain an understanding of the influence of plant pathogens in crop-ecology finalized in rationalise disease control; to know the most successful plant protection strategies by physical, genetic, cultural, chemical and biological means; to gain knowledge of the use of predictive models.

Syllabus

The syllabus has not been published yet.

Office hours

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