Course title
園芸作物学特論   [Advanced Horticultural Crop Science]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 1  Semester Fall 
Course type Fall  Course code 05MP5134
Instructor(s)
荻原 勲, 河鰭 実之   [OGIWARA Isao, KAWABATA Saneyuki]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office   Email address

Course description
As the advancement of the technologies for regulating horticultural crop production, it is becoming more important to understand the biological background for the plant development and plant responses to endogenous and exogenous stimuli. In this lecture, we will discuss the topics on horticulture from ecological, physiological, and molecular biological point of view. We will introduce overviews of the habitat, structure and morphogenesis of horticultural crops, physiology of flowering, fruit development and maturation, biochemical basis for biosynthesis of functional compounds, plant responses to temperature and other environments, and the techniques that constitute the plant factory system for crop production. We will also discuss our contribution to reconstruction support for Tohoku disaster area.
Expected Learning
1. To understand the basic body structure of horticultural crops,
2. To understand the mechanism of plants to environmental changes,
3. To understand the new technologies for analyzing and controlling plants,
4. To understand the biological backgrounds for various technologies used for controlling the development of horticultural crops
Course schedule
① guidance 
② the basic of plant body structure and classification (1)
③ the basic of plant body structure and classification (2)
④ physiology of flowering control(1)
⑤ physiology of flowering control(2)
⑥ fruit development and maturation(1)
⑦ fruit development and maturation(2)
⑧ source/sink balance and fruit quality
⑨ functional compounds - flavonoids
⑩ analyzing genomes of horticultural crops
⑪ crop production techniques
⑫ plant factory
Prerequisites
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Assessment/Grading
Message from instructor(s)
The recent advances in the fine control of horticultural crop production is based on our knowledge on the process of crop development and their responses to environments. This lecture is aimed to show the relationship between the production techniques and background biology.
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Office hours
Kawabata e-mail:ayuki@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Lecture Language
Japanese
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Last update
10/6/2017 12:02:50 PM