Fruit experiment station Tetti Grondana
The experimental facilities Tetti Grondana is located in Chieri and is distributed over 12 hectares.
It was acquired by the University in 1966, and since then it has been used for experimental activities and for educational purposes.
It hosts a vast collection of both native and international fruit trees, including rare or endangered species.
Currently, there are about 800 accessions on the farm (254 apple cultivars, 110 peach trees, 120 cherry trees, 38 pear trees, 30 apricot trees, 60 plum trees, 60 almond trees, 33 walnut trees, and 90 hazelnut trees) of which about 50% is made up of native Piedmontese plant material.
The fruits of the collections are used as samples in pomological exhibitions set up for conferences and meetings at national level.
There are also collections of vines (of which 50 for wine and over 30 for table), mulberry, and other minor fruit varieties, and a vineyard of Freisa Doc (2000 square meters).
The facilities are equipped with a building used as a warehouse, a cold room for storing fruit and a garage for the storage of large agricultural machinery (tractors, atomizers, etc.); there is also an area used as a nursery of about 2500 square meters, a small greenhouse used for the propagation of dried fruit species (walnut, hazel, chestnut) and a meteorological station model MeteoSense 2.0 GPRS equipped with an anemometer, rain gauge, thermo-hygrometer, barometer and radiometer.
- PROPRUNUS project - Renewal and extension of the local germplasm collections of Piedmontese stone fruit preserved at Azienda Tetti Grondana of the University of Turin (Prof. Roberto Botta) project funded under the PSR 2014-2020 Misura 10 - Operazione 10.2.1
- Experiments on the use of non-polloniferous stone rootstocks of clonal origin (Dundee and Newberg) and of interspecific hybrids of C. avellana x C. colurna, in combination with the local variety Tonda Gentile Trilobata (Prof. Roberto Botta)
- Test fields of the project "Varietal lists of fruit trees" funded by MiPAAF for the cherry and plum tree species (Prof. Giovanna Giacalone and Prof. Gabriele Beccaro)
- General and applied entomology investigations on the Asian bug Halyomorpha halys (Prof. Luciana Tavella)
- Experimental activity on the effects of run-off risk mitigation through the use of different herbaceous mixtures (Prof. Francesco Vidotto).
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Contacts
Strada Tetti Grondana 12, 10023, Chieri (TO)
Contact person: Nadia Valentini
Email: nadia.valentini@unito.it
Phone: 011 947 0605