MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT TREE CROPS
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Stefano Giovanni LA MALFAExpected Learning Outcomes
The course is aimed at supplying detailed information about biological, environmental and agronomic factors dealing with citrus, grape and olive production.
Students will learn how to tackle matters related to varietal and rootstock choice and to agronomic management finding those most suitable for different specific conditions.
Course Structure
Lessons, discussion on specific topics, excursion and visits.
If teaching is given in a mixed formula or remotely, necessary changes may be introduced to what was previously stated in order to comply with the provided and reported syllabus.
Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.
As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline.
It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Inclusion - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professors Giovanna Tropea Garzia and Anna De Angelis.
Required Prerequisites
Detailed Course Content
Citriculture: 1. Citrus taxonomy, origin and diffusion; 2. Ecology, crop adaptation to different climatic conditions, morphology and physiology; 3. Varieties of the main citrus species; rootstocks; 4. Genetic improvement; 5. Propagation and cultivation techniques.
Oliviculture: 1. Botany, diffusion; 2. Ecological and climatic requirements, organography and physiology; 3. Varieties; 4. Pruning and management; 5. Quality and product use.
Viticulture: 1. Origin, diffusion and distribution of the crop; 2. Botany, organography and ampelography; 3. Ecology and physiology of the crop and its behavior in different climatic conditions; 4. Propagation and planting: choice of rootstocks and varieties for wine and table grape; 5. Training systems, pruning and cultivation techniques
Textbook Information
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Books for studying: 2. L’ulivo e l’olio. Collana Coltura & Cultura. Bayer CropScience, 2009 3. La vite e il vino. Collana Coltura & Cultura. Bayer CropScience, 2007 4. Arboricoltura speciale. Edagricole. 2022 |
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. Agrumicoltura: Inquadramento botanico, origine e diffusione degli agrumi; ecologia, morfologia e fisiologia | Testo 1: pagg. 1-37 - |
| 2 | 2. Agrumicoltura: Propagazione e tecniche colturali | Testo 1: pagg. 146-213 |
| 3 | 3. Agrumicoltura: Miglioramento genetico; patrimonio cultivarietale delle principali specie agrumicole; portinnesti | Testo 4: pagg. 23-112 |
| 4 | 4. Olivicoltura: Inquadramento botanico, diffusione nel mondo e in Italia; esigenze ecologiche, cenni di organografia e di fisiologia | Testo 2: pagg. 2-24; pagg. 350-357; pagg. 709-762 |
| 5 | 5. Olivicoltura: Patrimonio cultivarietale; qualità e destinazione del prodotto | Testo 2: pagg. 555-605; pagg. 358-371; pagg. 636-673 |
| 6 | 6. Olivicoltura: Propagazione, vivaismo, potatura, forme di allevamento e tecniche colturali | Testo 2: pagg. 372-439; 496-553 |
| 7 | 7. Viticoltura: Origine, diffusione e inquadramento botanico | Testo 3: pagg. 1-46; pagg. 547-579 |
| 8 | 8. Viticoltura: Ecologia e fisiologia; Propagazione; scelta dei portinnesti e dei vitigni per vite da vino e da mensa; miglioramento genetico | Testo 3: pagg. 235-245; pagg. 246-283; pagg. 474-488 |
| 9 | 9. Viticoltura: Forme di allevamento, sistemi di potatura e tecniche colturali | Testo 3: pagg. 284-351 |