Eco-sustainable strategies in the protection of agricultural crops (part of plant pathology) is a teaching that has the objectives of:
1) Highlight the main characteristics of phytopathogenic bacteria and fungi;
2) Transfer knowledge about the eco-sustainable principles of phytopathological defense;
3) Provide the practical-applicative phytoiatric knowledge with particular reference to the agrochemicals allowed under eco-sustainable and organic agriculture for the protection of agricultural crops;
4) Describe case studies of bacterial and fungal diseases affecting the main agricultural crops both in phytopathological terms and in terms of the development of eco-sustainable protection approaches.