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Topic 1. Concept of Disease and Phytopathology. Classification of diseases. |
Clasificación das Enfermedades |
Topic 2. Symptomatology of diseases. Types of symptoms. |
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Topic 3. Concept of pathogen and parasite. Stages of disease development. |
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Topic 4. Types of attacks from pathogens to plants. |
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Topic 5. How plants are defended by pathogens. |
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Topic 6. Means of control against pathogens: preventive and curative. Control methods: regulators (legislative), cultural, biological, physical and chemical. |
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Topic 7. Generalities of fungi. Important groups in Forest Pathology. |
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Topic 8. Rotting, drowning or damping-off in seedbeds. |
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Topic 9. Diseases of leaves in conifers |
9.1 Red band (Mycosphaerella pini and M. dearnessii)
9.2 Blight of pine needles (Lophodermium pinastri).
9.3 Mention of Meloderma desmazieri |
Topic 10. Diseases of leaves in angiosperms |
10.1 Oidium or odium of the oak, Erysiphe alphitoides.
10.2 Spotting of eucalyptus leaves, Mycosphaerella sp.
10.3 Gray mold, Botryotinia fuckeliana = Botrytis cinerea |
Topic 11. Diseases of trunk and branches of conifers. |
11.1 Cancers: Sphaerospsis sapinea = Granulodiplodia sapinea; Nectria cinnabarina = Tubercularia vulgaris.
11.2 Royas: Cronartium flaccidum or white rust of pine.
11.3 Resinous pineal cancer Gibberella circinata = Fusarium circinatum. |
Topic 12. Diseases of trunk and branches in Angiosperms. |
12.1 Chestnut brown, Cryphonectria parasitica.
12.2 Carbon or carbonaceous disease, Biscogniauxia mediterranea = Hypoxylon mediterraneum.
12.3 Grafiosis of elm. Ophiostoma ulmi, O. novo-ulmi |
Topic 13. Root diseases. |
13.1 Chestnut ink, Phytophthora cinnamomi.
13.2 In conifers, Heterobasidion annosum.
13.3 Pathogen of numerous species. Armillaria sp. |
Topic 14. Diseases caused by nematode viruses and bacteria. |
14.1 Pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus |
Topic 15. General ideas about insects. Classification: Apterygota. Exopterygota. Endopterygota. |
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Topic 16. Biological balance and plague phenomenon. |
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Topic 17. Methods of pest control. |
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Topic 18. Conifer pests |
18.1 Defoliator insects: Thaumetopoea pityocampa.
18.2 Insect borers, most representative species: scythes (Ips sexdentatus) cerambícidos (Monochamus galloprovincialis), etc.
18.3 Most representative taxa of sucking insects. |
Topic 19. Eucalyptus pests. |
19.1 Deflating insects, Gonipterus scutellatus
19.2 Insect borers, Phoracantha semipunctata.
19.3 Sucking insects, Ctenarytaina spatulata |
Topic 20. Review some of the most representative pests of garden trees. Mention of the plagues of the chestnut fruit. |
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Tema 21. Mención de algunhas pragas en frondosas autoctonas. |
21.1 Insectos defoliadores
21.2 Insectos perforadores
21.3 Insectos chupadores |
Práctica 1. Como elaborar medios de cultivo de fungos |
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Práctica 2. Identificación de estruturas reproductoras de fungos |
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Práctica 3. Aprender a metodoloxía do repicaxe de fungos, en placas Petri e tubos roscados |
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Práctica 4. Illar fungos a partir de material vexetal. |
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Páctica 5. Recoñecer os síntomas e signos das enfermidades e pragas forestais máis frecuentes, tanto no laboratorio como no campo. |
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Páctica 6. Recoñecer as enfermedades e pragas máis importantes nos cultivos forestais e bosques |
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Práctica 7. Se é posible se visitará a Estación Fitopatolóxica do Areeiro. Centro de referencia en patoloxía e pragas. |
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