BIOTECHNOLOGIES OF HERBACEOUS CROPS

The teaching aims to build knowledge, skills and competences concerning the adaptation and resistance to environmental stress, improving the resources efficiency and the use of biotechnology to the sustainable energy production.

The course will be structured as follows:

• Lectures
• Participated lessons
• Cooperative lessons
• Analysis of case studies

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 Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professors Giovanna Tropea Garzia and Anna De Angelis.

1. Basic knowledge on agroecosystems structure and function
2. Brief notes on biodiversity and germplasm conservation
3. Genetic improvement of herbaceous crops
4. Genetically modified plants (transferred characters and genetic control)
5. Nutrient use efficiency
6. Resistance to environmental stress
7. Biofuels production from herbaceous crops.
8. Phytoremediation of polluted soils.

1. Genomica e Biotecnologie Genetiche – Vol III (Barcaccia, Falcinelli). Liguori Editore
2. Biologia cellulare e Biotecnologie Vegetali (Pasqua G.). Piccin Editore
3. Biotecnologie sostenibili (Galbiati, Gentile, La Malfa, Tonelli). Edagricole Editore
4. Appunti del docente