BIOTECHNOLOGIES IN VEGETABLE AND FLOWER INDUSTRY

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Ferdinando Branca
Credit Value: 6
Taught classes: 35 hours
Exercise: 14 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The course aims at transmitting basic knowledge on vegetable and ornamental plants and on the main goals of crop and product improvement. Referring to the mentioned group of crops, biotechnology application to their valorization, breeding, propagation and germplasm ex situ conservation will highlighted and described


Course Structure

Lectures and lab training as foreseen on http://gomp2012unictpublicwebsite.besmart.it/manifesti/render.aspx?UID=cabf65bb-81a5-4158-a323-95b0d23dd477


Detailed Course Content

Vegetable and flower industry main crops and their final products.

The intrinsic characteristics of the product and the main biotic and abiotic stresses which may compromise yield and quality.

The main goals of plant breeding in vegetable and flower industry and their achievement by applying biotechnologies.

In vitro propagation techniques used for the main crops

Innovative technologies for germplasm ex situ conservation


Textbook Information

Genetica e Genomica. Vol. 3: Genomica e biotecnologie genetiche. G. Barcaccia, M. Falcinelli. Liguori Editore.

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