Course title
地域生物機能利用学   [Utilization of Regional Biological Functions]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 1  Semester Fall 
Course type Fall  Course code 05MI5020
Instructor(s)
藤井 義晴   [FUJII Yoshiharu]
Facility affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Research Office   Email address

Course description
Sustainable agriculture based on ecology, biological interaction will be discussed. Allelopathy and chemical ecology, concepts and its application to agriculture through domestic or natural plants will also discussed and successful example by teachers will be demonstrated. Presentation by students will be encouraged.
Expected Learning
・Understanding of sustainable agriculture based on agro-ecology.
・Safety and toxicity of agro-chemicals. approach for the development of new herbicide.
・Learn about organic agriculture, their myth, safety and problems.
・review of organic chemistry in order to understand agrochemicals and allelochemicals.
・Learn about allelopathy (plant to plant, plant to insect, plant to microorganism interaction)
・Lean about the risk and benefit of introduced and invasive alien plants.
・Lean and discuss about the introduction of beneficial plants.
Course schedule
1) Introduction and orientation
2) Agroecology, concept and overview
3) Agro-chemicals, their overuse, and new trials
4) Organic farming, organic food are not always safe
5) Organic chemistry and natural products chemistry as a basis for allelopathy
6) Allelopathy 1 (Definition, history and scientists)
7) Allelopathy 2 (Isolation of allelochemicals)
8) Allelopathy 3 (Application by cover plants and chemicals)
9) Traditional and introduced plants
10) Risk assessment of invasive alien plants
11) Traditional way of agriculture
12) Preparation of Presentation by students (country report)
13) Presentation by 1st group, comments and discussion
14) Presentation by 2nd group, comments and discussion
15) Presentation by 3rd group, comments and final discussion
Prerequisites
Nothing
Required Text(s) and Materials
No
References
Allelopathy New concepts and Methodology, Ed. Fujii and Hiradate, Science Publisher, 2007
Assessment/Grading
Percentage of attendance (70%), Presentation (30%)
Message from instructor(s)
Report of each counry after my lecture will be evaluated by other students.
Course keywords
Agroecology, natural resources, alien plants, allelopathy, regional biological resorces
Office hours
15:00 - 17:00, e-mail (yfujii@cc.tuat.ac.jp)
Remarks 1
1st 8(Sat) Dec., 2018 from 9:00 to 18:00
2nd 15(Sat) Dec., 2018 9:00 to 18:00
3rd 22(Sat) Dec., 2018, 9:00 to 18:00
at 2N-405 (4th Floor)
Remarks 2
Related URL
http://www.niaes.affrc.go.jp/techdoc/inovlec2004/1-3.pdf
Lecture Language
English
Language Subject
Last update
9/26/2018 7:48:29 AM