The Agronomy and Crop Science Area provides statewide leadership in research, teaching, and extension in the subjects of crop production, sustainable agricultural systems and environment, soil physics...

The team of Agricultural Chemistry, which includes the scientific disciplinary groups of AGR/13, AGR/14 and CHIM/03, is active in basic research relevant to the environment. It is well equipped to car...

The Entomology group studies the entomofauna of crop species, investigating the morphology, biology and ethology of noxious and beneficial insects. Particular attention is devoted to the study and pr...

<p>Modern genetics encompasses a great diversity of topics: functional genomics, genetic transformation, mapping, comparative genome analysis, conventional and not conventional breeding approaches, mo...

<p>The study of microbiology gives the scientific and technological knowledge useful for sustainable plant production and for the transformation of agricultural products. The increasing request of an...

The objective of Plant Pathology area is to perform research and provide education in plant health science, focusing on the diagnosis and control of plant diseases and interactions between plants, mic...