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| Topic 1. Concept of Disease and Phytopathology. Classification of diseases. |
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| 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 |
