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Lecturer(s)
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Bárta Jan, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
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Štěrba Zdeněk, Ing. Ph.D.
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Bártová Veronika, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
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Pexová Kalinová Jana, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The trends in growing and economic importance of yield crops in the Europe and the Czech Republic. The measurement methods of plant growth and development. The principles of yield formation and reduction. Cereals - yield potential, growth and development. Wheat, rye, barley, oat, triticale, corn - history, biology, varieties and seed, technology of growing, harvest and storage. Leguminous plants - botany charakteristics, growth and development, formation of yield, symbiotic nitrogen fixation. Peas, horse bean, fieldbean, soybean, common wetch - history, biology, varieties and seed, technology of growing, harvest and storage. Oil crops - economic importance, position in plant production. Winter rape, mustard, sunflower - history, biology, varieties and seed, technology of growing, harvest and storage. Importance of fibreflax - history, biology, varieties and seed, technology of growing, harvest and postharvest technology of fibre flax. The economic importance of root crops. Sugar beet - history, growing in the Czech Republic and Europe. Biology charateristics, photosynthesis an grow conditions, varieties and seed, conditions of yield formation, technology of growing, harvest and storage. Potato - history, growing in the Czech Republic and Europe. Biology characteristics, photosynthesis and grow conditons, yield formation, varieties and seed, technology of growing, harvest and storage.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
- Preparation for credit
- 10 hours per semester
- Preparation for exam
- 60 hours per semester
- Semestral paper
- 20 hours per semester
- Class attendance
- 56 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of this course is to obtain general kowledges of plant production under field conditions in the Czech Republic. The most important species are selected in every group of field crops to obtain basic theoretical and practical principles of growing of plants.
Students are able to orientate in the field crops production.
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Prerequisites
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Standard knowledge of plant biology.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Combined exam
Active participation in exercises, understanding the curriculum defined for the exam.
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Recommended literature
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Biddle A. J. Peas and beans. CABI, Wallingford, 2017. ISBN 9781780640914.
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Danfort A.T. (ed.). Corn crop production - growth, fertilization and yeild.. Nova Science Pub Inc; UK, 2009. ISBN 1607419556.
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Hay R., Porter J. (eds.). The Physiology of Crop Yield. Blackwell Publishing, New Jersey, 2006. ISBN 978-1-405-10859-1.
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McKeon, T.A., Hayes, D.G., Hildebrand, D.F., Weselake, R.J. (eds.). Industrial Oil Crops. Academic Press and AOCS Press, Cambridge, 2016. ISBN 978-1-893997-98-1.
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Sheaffer C.C., Moncada K.C. (eds.). Introduction to Agronomy: Food, Crops and Environment. Delmar Cengage Learning, New York, 2012. ISBN 978-1111312336.
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