The Campus

The campus is located in Valenzano, in Bari metropolitan area, stretching on a surface of 100 thousand square metres. Three buildings host:

  • The Director’s bureau, administrative offices, teaching rooms, library and the great hall.
  • The laboratories, chambers (thermotherapy climatic, cold) and 8 guest-rooms for visiting professors.
  • The residence for trainees with 60 single rooms, medical centre, restaurant hall with 100 seats, coffee bar and leisure facilities-billiard, table tennis, tv etc.
  • Multi-purpose playgrounds for tennis, basketball, volleyball and 5-player soccer.
  • Documntation centre.

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Teaching and research facilities

  • rooms where theoretical lessons are held, equipped with simultaneous translation and projection facilities.

  • computer room with 15 workstations, equipped with peripherals and wired to a local area network and to the internet.

  • drawing room.

  • multi-purpose teaching facilities.

  • great hall with 200 seats equipped with simultaneous translation facilities and a multi-pourpose projection system

Laboratories

  • soil, plant and water chemical and physical analysis
  • plant physiology measurements
  • measurement of hydraulic quantities in conduits and canals
  • serological, electrophoretic and molecular virus diagnosis
  • virus and virus like diseases characterisation
  • in vitro culture
  • antisera production
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Chambers

  • thermotherapy
  • climatic
  • cold chambers

Experimental plots

  • Experimental area showing different irrigation methods
  • Lysimetric station with above ground drainage
  • Collection plots of grapevine and stone fruit virus diseases

Greenhouses

  • thermoconditioned, for hydroponic cropping and biological diagnosis
  • heated tunnels
  • screenhouses (insect proof greenhouses)
  • shaders

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The agro-meteorological station

  • equipment to report meteorological data
  • automatic system to collect and process data on an hourly basis
  • micrometeorological equipment for open field studies

The telematic network

  • local area network (LAN – Ethernet) connected to the Internet with a dedicated line at 2 Mb/s
  • data base (www.iamb.it) on the Internet world wide web
  • on-line connection to EINS data bank (European Information Network Service)
  • mobile videoconference system (Aethra Vega 384) on 3 ISDN lines

The centre for  the production, conservation and use of healthy plant material

Created in the framework of a programme originated from a suggestion of the FAO aiming at countering the sanitary decline of typical fruit crops in the Mediterranean basin, caused by virus and virus like diseases, the centre:

  • is equipped with a laboratory for the purification and identification of viral agents.

  • specialises both in early diagnosis, with biological, serological and molecular techniques, of virus and virus like infections on stone fruits, citrus, grapevine and olive trees, and in the clonal selection and sanitation of infected cells by thermotherapy and in vitro tissue culture.

The germplasm bank

The bank is attached to the Centre for the production, conservation and use of healthy plant material. Its screehouses (insect proof greenhouses) ensure the healthy condition of the Mediterranean "primary sources" of apricot tree, plum tree, peach tree, cherry tree, almond tree, citrus trees, grapevine and olive tree, selected and sanitised in MAI-Bari laboratories. This is the first section of the channel of fruit tree nursery material provided with a genetic and sanitary certification in Apulia.