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   [FUJII Yoshiharu]
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
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
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
10/16/2018 3:34:59 PM