Modulo di entomologia

Knowledge and understanding skills
The teaching aims to develop students' knowledge and understanding skills, such as:
- Knowing and understanding the salient features of the entomological world
- knowing the logic of post-embryonic development and the fundamental morphological characters. - To know and understand the biology and ethology of insects, with particular regard to phytophagous and beneficial insects
Applied knowledge and understanding
Teaching will enable knowledge and understanding to be applied, for example
- Recognize an insect down to family level.
- Apply population control systems according to the ethology of the phytophagous
- Develop manual skills in entomological management at both the nursery and field level
- Identify the logic of agricultural production and develop appropriate entomological pest control systems
Autonomy of judgement
Teaching allows the development of autonomy of judgement at various levels, such as
- Hypothesizing the main phytophagous insects of greenhouses and open fields
- propose the most appropriate control strategies
Communication skills
Participating in lectures and exercises, making independent use of the material provided will facilitate the development and application of communication skills, such as
- provide a sufficient range of practical examples of the application of recognition and control systems
- using appropriate and up-to-date technical agronomic vocabulary.
Learning skills
Participating in the lectures and exercises, making independent use of the material made available will facilitate the consolidation of one's learning skills, enabling one to, for example
- stimulate an autonomous program of continuous knowledge updating.
- autonomously identify ways to acquire information from the experiential knowledge of farmers and nursery managers and the professional knowledge of agronomists
- identify and use the most useful sources of information for personal updating.


Modulo di patologia vegetale

The courseincludesteaching the basics of plantpathology, understoodas a basis of microbiology, principles of diagnostics and phytoiatry, applied to seeds and crops in a protectedenvironment. Throughlectures, the studentwillobtain the preparatory knowledge for practical transfer in field and laboratory activities. Particularattentionwill be paid to certification and preventionas control techniques in the community, evaluatinglimits and applicationpotentialthrough the analysis of some case studies.
Knowledge and understanding
The coursewillprovidestudents with basic knowledge of plantpathologyapplied to seed production and conservation systems, and protectedcultivationenvironments. The studentwilllearn to decline the principles of plantpathology in particular production contextssuchas nurseries and structures for the propagation and maintenance of plantmaterial.
Applied knowledge and understanding
The studentwill be able to recognize the mainabiotic and biotechnologicaladversities of agricultural, ornamental and forestrycrops, evaluate the effectiveness of plantdisease control systems and suggest low environmental impact defense techniques.
Autonomy of judgment
The coursewillallow to develop the ability to evaluate the positive aspects and applicationlimits of the maincropprotection techniques in a protectedenvironment in relation to the severity and biologicalcharacteristics of plantpathogens.
Communication skills
Students will be able to explain with a technical-scientificlanguage the phytosanitaryproblemsthataffect nursery production contexts.
Learning skills
Students will be able to independentlydevelopevaluations and reasoning on the strategies for fighting and containingphytosanitaryproblems, apply the notionslearnedthrough case studies to all production contexts to define the approaches for recognizing, isolating and maintainingplantpathogens.