| Course title | |||||
| Plant Ecology for Agriculture and Allelopathy [Plant Ecology for Agriculture and Allelopathy] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 1 | ||
| Department | Year | ～ | Semester | Fall | |
| Course type | Fall | Course code | 018107 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 藤井 義晴, 岡崎 伸 [FUJII Yoshiharu, OKAZAKI Shin] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Research | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
| Food and useful bioactive chemicals as a most important value of biodiversity. Plant Ecology related to environment and agriculture will be discussed. How and why species adapted to the environment and made diverse existence (Biodiversity) will be discussed. Food and useful bioactive chemicals as a most important value of biodiversity will be explained. The current status of risk assessment and management of invasive alien plants will also be discussed. Allelopathy and Chemical Ecology will be explained, as this is a major research topic of teacher (Fujii). |
| Expected Learning |
| Obtain basic knowledge of Agricultural and Environmental Plant Ecology and Allelopathy |
| Course schedule |
|
1. Introduction: Shape and life form of plants and origin of crop, Ecological evolution, Adaptation and evolution. 2. Plant community, Analysis of plant community, Phytoclimatology, Phytogeography, Succession and their utilization in agriculture. 3. Invasive alien plants, Risk assessment and management, Plant environmental ecology and agriculture in tropical region. 4. Biodiversity and its crisis, Utilization of biodiversity. 5. Chemical Ecology and Allelopathy 6. Weed in agriculture, Evolution of crop from weed. 7. Exploitation of future food from traditional regional food. 8. Examination or Report |
| Prerequisites |
| None |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
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1) Plant Ecology, Second Edition, Michael J. Crawley ed. (2009) 2) Campbell Biology, Tenth Edition, Jane B. Reece, Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Robert B. Jackson (2014) (Ninth Edition (2011) will do) 3) Allelopathy, New concepts and methodology, Y. Fujii and S. Hiradate ed (2007) |
| References |
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Allelopathy, New Concepts and Methodology, Fujii and Hiradate Ed. 2007. (No need to buy, but some topics of my lecture are explained in the chapters of this book) |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Participation in lectures and assignments (60%), Final examination or report (40%) |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| Course keywords |
| Adaptiogenesis, biodiversity, biological interactions, allelopathy, vegetation survey, alien species, weed, life form |
| Office hours |
| 13:30 to 15:00 at 2N-405 (reservation requested) |
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| Lecture Language |
| English |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 4/6/2017 9:22:31 AM |