Laboratory of Agronomy and Crop Science

LABORATORY OF AGRONOMY AND CROP SCIENCE

Staff: prof. Arturo Alvino (Full Professor) and prof. Sebastiano Delfine (Associate professor).

Main research lines:

 monitoring of agricultural crops with remote sensing techniques

 limiting factors for crop production

 recovery, characterization and valorization of cultivated landraces biodiversity

 monitoring the response of field crops to stresses and the incidence of agronomic (water supply, fertilization, plant density, etc.) and environmental constraints to crop yield.

Keywords

Remote sensing, UAVs, proximal sensing, vegetation index, crop yield, water supply, crop nutrition, weed management, herbaceous and horticultural crops.

Lab equipments

1. Portable Area meter Li-Cor 3100
2. Data Logger Campbell
3. Two portable gas-exchange-portable systems (Licor 6400)
4. Leaf fluorescence (Walz mini-Pam)
5. Needle Chamber for Licor 6400
6. Two standard meteorological stations (Tecno-El)
7. Osmometer – Roebling model 5R
8. Pressure chamber – Scholander (Soil Moisture,USA),
9. Area meter for Laboratory – Li-Cor 3100
10. Steam distillation equipment, UDK 130 – VELP
11. Portable hygrometer Rotronic
12. 2 GPS
13. Oven with forced ventilation – Venticell 707, internal volume 94 x 52 x 140 (h)
14. Growth chamber, internal volume 182 x 86 x 90 (h) cm