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B016964 - PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
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Course Content
Suggested readings
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Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2021-22
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Experimantal and Clinical Medicine
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
AGR/12 - PLANT PATHOLOGY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
28/02/2022 ⇒ 18/06/2022
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian, with digital supports as well as scientific papers/books in English
Course Content
Biotechnology applied to Plant Pathology, specifically focused on agrifood and environment sectors
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
1) Plant Pathology
5th Edition (2005)
by G. Agrios, Ed. Academic Press
2) Essential Plant Pathology (2010), by G.L. Schumann & C.J. D’Arcy, APS Press.
3) Genomics of Plant-Associated Bacteria (2014),
Eds D. Gross, A. Lichens-Park, K. Chittaranjan (Eds.)
Springer
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-642-55378-3
4) digital learning materials and scientific papers, recent and extremely updated, provided during the course
5th Edition (2005)
by G. Agrios, Ed. Academic Press
2) Essential Plant Pathology (2010), by G.L. Schumann & C.J. D’Arcy, APS Press.
3) Genomics of Plant-Associated Bacteria (2014),
Eds D. Gross, A. Lichens-Park, K. Chittaranjan (Eds.)
Springer
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-642-55378-3
4) digital learning materials and scientific papers, recent and extremely updated, provided during the course
Learning Objectives
Knowledge and understanding: Students will acquire information and instruments related to biotechnology applied to plant pathology. Knowledge and understanding are developed with lectures and laboratory practices and exercises. Verification of training objective is achieved by an oral exam at the end of the course.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: The ability to apply knowledge and understanding by the of students will be developed finalized to their involvement on working activities, to overcome the State examination for the registration to the Professional Order of Doctors of Agronomy and forestry, and to succesfully attend the II level Course of Biotechnology for agrifood and environment.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: The ability to apply knowledge and understanding by the of students will be developed finalized to their involvement on working activities, to overcome the State examination for the registration to the Professional Order of Doctors of Agronomy and forestry, and to succesfully attend the II level Course of Biotechnology for agrifood and environment.
Teaching Methods
Lectures and laboratory exercises and practices, accordingly and respectuful of current legislation, laws and measures to combat and contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination at the end of the course, as officially reported on the UNIFI website for the students to enrol for the exam.
The evaluation parameters are:
- the ability to use a correct language as well as a specific scientific language for the description of topics related to Plant pathology and Biotechnology applied to Plant Pathology;
- a thorough knowledge of the main topics of the course;
- the ability to critically analyze a problem concerning Plant pathology, thus to set up a model useful to solve the problem with cutting edge solutions.
The evaluation parameters are:
- the ability to use a correct language as well as a specific scientific language for the description of topics related to Plant pathology and Biotechnology applied to Plant Pathology;
- a thorough knowledge of the main topics of the course;
- the ability to critically analyze a problem concerning Plant pathology, thus to set up a model useful to solve the problem with cutting edge solutions.
Course program
Lectures
1) Introduction to Plant Pathology: main concepts such as disease, signs and symptoms, Koch's postulates, main plant pathogens and their taxonomy.
2) Thematic language and main concepts, such as
pathogenicity/virulence, resistance/susceptibility, pathovar/forma specialis, race and cultivars, host/non host, disease triangle.
3) Biotechnology applied to Plant pathology to understand the molecular basis of host-pathogen dialogue and interaction, and to develop innovative and ecofriendly control methods: several examples.
4) Epidemiology, using traditional and molecular approaches
5) Diagnostics and identification, by conventional and molecular approaches.
Practice, on site and/or by webinar, accordingly to the current measures to combat and contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
1. Molecular diagnostic applied to plant pathogen detection and quantification.
2. Bioinformatic for genome, genes, transcriptomes and proteins mining, to search determinants related to pathogenicity, virulence and interaction host-pathogen and specificity, and plant pathogen evolution.
1) Introduction to Plant Pathology: main concepts such as disease, signs and symptoms, Koch's postulates, main plant pathogens and their taxonomy.
2) Thematic language and main concepts, such as
pathogenicity/virulence, resistance/susceptibility, pathovar/forma specialis, race and cultivars, host/non host, disease triangle.
3) Biotechnology applied to Plant pathology to understand the molecular basis of host-pathogen dialogue and interaction, and to develop innovative and ecofriendly control methods: several examples.
4) Epidemiology, using traditional and molecular approaches
5) Diagnostics and identification, by conventional and molecular approaches.
Practice, on site and/or by webinar, accordingly to the current measures to combat and contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
1. Molecular diagnostic applied to plant pathogen detection and quantification.
2. Bioinformatic for genome, genes, transcriptomes and proteins mining, to search determinants related to pathogenicity, virulence and interaction host-pathogen and specificity, and plant pathogen evolution.