Module:
(objectives)
- Ability to recognise the important plant diseases. - Knowledge of the biology of phytopathogenic agents (bacteria, fungi, viruses). - Understanding of host-pathogen interactions: strategies of attack by plant pathogens and defense mechanisms of plants, their susceptibility, resistance, pathogenicity and virulence and their infectious process. - Knowledge of the epidemiological aspects and the influence of environmental factors on the outbreak and spread of the disease. - Preliminary knowledge of the main epidemic predictive models. - Knowledge of the plant diseases control (prevention and treatment) by chemical and organic pesticides, and by the use of innovative technologies (GIS, GPS, Drones).
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