Fruit Tree Production

1CFU: Importance, diffusion, use and problems of tree species fruit, wood and ornamental; statistical data on Italian and European productions; modern fruit farming. Morphological, anatomical and physiological characteristics of radical apparatuses, structure and anatomy, morphology; functions of different types of roots; growth and renewal; how it is distributed in the soil; competition and antagonism; mycorrhizae.
2CFU Morphological features of the aerial apparatus of falling and evergreen tree plants; structure, anatomy, trunk morphology, shoots, branches, buds, leaves and flowers; fruitful formations; development and growth of different organs; youngness and adventitious organs; growth mode; apical dominance, tropism and topophysis. Vegetative and productive biological cycles; vegetable hormones; dormancy: endogenous and climatic factors; demands in chilly and hot, calculating method
3CFU Dynamic development and growth of fruit and seed; different types of fruits morphology and anatomy; use of plant phytoregulators to regulate fruiting and fruit development; maturation process, maturation indices and quality; harvest; conservation. Sexual propagation; seed formation, their production and conservation; seed dormancy, its interruption and germination, epoch and sowing mode, seed cures; juvenility.
4CFU Asexual propagation the methods of multiplication; physiology of rizogenesis, rooting of cuttings; physiology of grafting, techniques and graft types; choice and use of port graft, influence and effects of rootstock, biotic and abiotic resistances; nursery and transplantation, in vitro crops and micropropagation; European law about propagation. Soil influence on productivity and quality: environmental vocation; type of soil, texture and soil depth; water and nutritional capacity, drainage, aeration, organic matter, fertility, salinity and pH of soil;
5CFU Influence of climate factors on productivity and product quality, climate conditions of temperate areas, effect of adversity on different plant organs, strategies and techniques for protection against frost, wind, hail, heat; productions in protected cultivation. The orchard; criteria for varietal choices pedoclimatic, cultural, economic factors; orchard trellis systems and plant density; Purposes and physiological bases of the effects of plant pruning; dormant pruning; fruit thinning
6CFU Water and nutritional balance, absorption and transport of water in arboreal plants, transpiration, deficiency or excess water effects, irrigation; absorption and transport of mineral elements and their function in macro and micronutrient arboreal plants; metabolism of reserve substances and seasonal variations. Cultivation techniques for physiological purposes and bases and plant response; soil management in row and row spacing; manuring

[Program for not attending students with reference to descriptor 1 and 2]:
1CFU: Importance, diffusion, use and problems of tree species fruit, wood and ornamental; statistical data on Italian and European productions; modern fruit farming. Morphological, anatomical and physiological characteristics of radical apparatuses, structure and anatomy, morphology; functions of different types of roots; growth and renewal; how it is distributed in the soil; competition and antagonism; mycorrhizae.
2CFU Morphological features of the aerial apparatus of falling and evergreen tree plants; structure, anatomy, trunk morphology, shoots, branches, buds, leaves and flowers; fruitful formations; development and growth of different organs; youngness and adventitious organs; growth mode; apical dominance, tropism and topophysis. Vegetative and productive biological cycles; vegetable hormones; dormancy: endogenous and climatic factors; demands in chilly and hot, calculating method
3CFU Dynamic development and growth of fruit and seed; different types of fruits morphology and anatomy; use of plant phytoregulators to regulate fruiting and fruit development; maturation process, maturation indices and quality; harvest; conservation. Sexual propagation; seed formation, their production and conservation; seed dormancy, its interruption and germination, epoch and sowing mode, seed cures; juvenility.
4CFU Asexual propagation the methods of multiplication; physiology of rizogenesis, rooting of cuttings; physiology of grafting, techniques and graft types; choice and use of port graft, influence and effects of rootstock, biotic and abiotic resistances; nursery and transplantation, in vitro crops and micropropagation; European law about propagation. Soil influence on productivity and quality: environmental vocation; type of soil, texture and soil depth; water and nutritional capacity, drainage, aeration, organic matter, fertility, salinity and pH of soil;
5CFU Influence of climate factors on productivity and product quality, climate conditions of temperate areas, effect of adversity on different plant organs, strategies and techniques for protection against frost, wind, hail, heat; productions in protected cultivation. The orchard; criteria for varietal choices pedoclimatic, cultural, economic factors; orchard trellis systems and plant density; Purposes and physiological bases of the effects of plant pruning; dormant pruning; fruit thinning
6CFU Water and nutritional balance, absorption and transport of water in arboreal plants, transpiration, deficiency or excess water effects, irrigation; absorption and transport of mineral elements and their function in macro and micronutrient arboreal plants; metabolism of reserve substances and seasonal variations. Cultivation techniques for physiological purposes and bases and plant response; soil management in row and row spacing; manuring