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AGRI_801 – Advanced Plant Pathology

Course Content


Lectures

  • Fungi of vegetable and ornamental species. Description, Hosts, Geographical Distribution, Disease Cycle, Damage and Treatment.
  • Prokaryotic diseases of vegetable and ornamental species. Description, Hosts, Geographical Distribution, Disease Cycle, Damage and Treatment.
  • Vegetable and ornamental virus induced diseases. Description, Hosts, Geographical Distribution, Disease Cycle, Damage and Treatment.
  • Non-parasitic diseases of vegetables and ornamental species. Description, Damage and Confrontation.
  • Parasitic plants
  • Post harvest diseases
  • Principles of fungal disease control
  • Principles of procaryotic disease control
  • Principles of virus disease control
  • Principles of non-parasitic disease control.

Laboratory exercises

  • Preparation of laboratory culture media
  • Principles of sampling and sample processing
  • Observation, description of symptoms, sample processing for identification of disease agent of tissues infected by plant pathogenic fungi, bacteria and viruses, or post-harvest disease agents.
  • Observation, description of symptoms, sample processing for identification of non parasitic disease causes

AGRI_802 – Special Topics on Floriculture

Course Content


Lectures

  1. Cultivation of flowering plants for cut flowers and pots
  2. Packaging and preservation of cut flowers
  3. Cultivation of potted plants
  4. Cultivation of garden plants
  5. Cultivation of park plants
  6. Cultivation of indoor plants
  7. Perennial and annual herbs
  8. Evergreen shrubs.
  9. Deciduous shrubs.
  10. Climbing plants.
  11. Evergreen and deciduous trees.
  12. Phrygana and aromatic plants.
  13. Succulent plants

Laboratory exercises

  1. Techniques for carnation cultivation
  2. Techniques for Gardenia, Azalea, Camellia cultivation
  3. Techniques for cut flowers cultivation
  4. Techniques for garden plants cultivation
  5. Techniques for indoor plants cultivation
  6. Plant propagation techniques

AGRI_803 – Olive Culture

Course Content


Lectures

  1. History of olive growing; anthropocene cultivation practices origin and classification of olive tree; economic data and projection for olive table fruits and olive oil at local and international stage.
  2. Morphology and taxonomy of olive tree; bud induction, differentiation and flowering; pollination and fruit setting; alternate bearing; structure and synthesis of olive fruit.
  3. Climate and soil condition requirements for olive culture.
  4. Olive propagation.
  5. Olive orchard establishment.
  6. Prunning
  7. Irrigation techniques in olive orchards – Water management and stress indicators.
  8. Olive tree nutrition; arid soils and soil salinity management for olives.
  9. Varieties; fruit maturity; harvest planning techniques and technology
  10. Olive oil mill technology, management and qualitative productivity standards.
  11. Pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical metabolites in olive orchards.
  12. Weed control and crop protection of olive trees; biological and IPM management plans.
  13. Contemporary issues on olive culture.

Laboratory exercises

  1. Characteristics of olive tree varieties; Management and development of patents in entrepreneurial olive culture.
  2. Modes of olive tree propagation; nursery startup and operational business plans.
  3. Phenotype plasticity in olive orchards; identification tools for olive plant material discrepancies.
  4. Postharvest technology in olives. Estimating yield loss due to environmental factors.
  5. Olive culture and environmental protection; circular economy in olive culture and fruit production.
  6. Research and discovery business plans for olive biopharmaceuticals.     

AGRI_804 – Soilesss Culture Systems

Course Content


Lectures

  1. Hydroponics: Soilless Cultivation systems.
  2. Equipment of hydroponic units
  3. Nutritive solutions. Fertilizers used in hydroponics. Nutritive solutions preparation systems. Irrigation systems.
  4. Substrates and channels for growing crops.
  5. Hydroponic growing systems: Open hydroponic systems. Closed hydroponic systems.
  6. Float systems. N.F.T. Systems, N.G.S. Systems Aquaculture systems.
  7. Hydroponic crops of vegetables and flower plants.
  8. Aeroponics: Historical review. Fundamentals of Aeroponics.
  9. Advantages and Disadvantages.
  10. Modern Aeroponic cultivation systems: Hight and Low pressure units’ Commercial systems
  11. Vertical aeroponic growing systems.
  12. Aeroponic organic cultivation. NASA Aeroponic Systems. Garden Towers.
  13. Fully automated aeroponic plant growing system. Aeroponic cultivation of vegetables and flower plants.
  14. Aquaponics, (fish and plants co-growing systems).

Laboratory Exercises

  1. Open hydroponic systems. Closed hydroponic systems. Nutritive solutions for horticultural and flower crops.
  2. Nutritive solutions preparation and supply systems.
  3. Installation of hydroponic cultivation (horticultural or floricultural species).
  4. Vertical aeroponic growing system (vertical cultivation of aeroponics), NASA aeroponic systems. Garden Towers.
  5. Fully automated aeroponic plant cultivation system.
  6. Aquaponics, (fish and plants co-growing systems

AGRI_805 – Pumping_systems

Course Content


Lectures

  1. Introduction to turbines and power turbines
  2. Thermodynamic analysis of turbines and power turbines
  3. Applications of turbine engines
  4. Turbines and similarity relations
  5. Fans and mechanical equipment of ventilated warehouses
  6. Pressure losses and fan selection
  7. Principles of fluid mechanics related to pump head losses
  8. Classification of pumps
  9. Positive displacement, piston, diaphragm and rotary pumps
  10. Dynamic pumps, centrifugal type
  11. Deep well pumps, underwater pumps
  12. Characteristic curves of pumps
  13. Selection of a suitable pump
  14. Selection and design of a suitable pumping unit

AGRI_EΕ – One (1) of the 8th Semester Elective Courses

 

The student chooses one (1) of the 8th  Semester Elective Courses


Κωδικός
Τίτλος
AGRI_ΕΕ1
Smart Agriculture
AGRI_ΕΕ2
Irrigation and Drainage using Information and Communication Technology
AGRI_ΕΕ3
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
AGRI_ΕΕ4
Pollution and Protection of the Rural Enviroment
AGRI_ΕΕ5
Systems Simulation and Modeling of Agrobiosystems
AGRI_ΕΕ6
Aromatic & Medicinal Plants
AGRI_ΕΕ7
Applied Soil Science
AGRI_ΕΕ8
Practical Training