Primer for Rice, Wheat, and Soybean Sciences
| Numbering Code | Year/Term | 2022 ・ Second semester | ||
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | Lecture | |
| Target Year | 2nd year students | Target Student | ||
| Language | Japanese | Day/Period | Wed.1 | |
| Instructor name |
NASUDA SHUUHEI (Graduate School of Agriculture Professor) TERAISHI MASAYOSHI (Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences Associate Professor) YOSHIKAWA TAKANORI (Graduate School of Agriculture Assistant Professor) TANAKA TOMOYUKI (Graduate School of Agriculture Associate Professor) TANAKA YUU (Graduate School of Agriculture Assistant Professor) MARUYAMA NOBUYUKI (Graduate School of Agriculture Professor) NAKAZAKI TETSUYA (Graduate School of Agriculture Professor) NISHIMURA KAZUSA (Graduate School of Agriculture Assistant Professor) |
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| Outline and Purpose of the Course | Rice, wheat, and soybeans are major crops that support our diet. We will give an overview of the characteristics and issues of these crops from (1) the crop evolution and plant breeding, (2) the crop-production physiology and ecology, and (3) the quality science viewpoints. We will provide the state-of-the-art research activities tackling with the unsolved problems of these crops. We would be most happy if we can share how interesting to perform basic and applied research in the crops. We hope this course provide good introduction for students to the sciences of crop plant production. | |||
| Course Goals |
・ Of the materials handled by plant production sciences, deeply understand what is rice, wheat, and soybean. ・ Understand what are the major problems in the characterization and production of each crop species. ・ Understand the research areas of each field of expertise and the relation between the fields in the context of agricultural science as a comprehensive science. ・ Learn problem-solving thinking by tracing the process of how the problems have been solved in the actual research field. |
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| Schedule and Contents |
There will be four lectures by the Crop Science, four by the Plant Breeding, four by the Food Quality Design and Development, and two by the Plant Production Control Laboratories. Characteristics and breeding of varieties from the perspective of crop evolution and genomic structure (Plant Breeding Laboratory); 1. 1. Biological characteristics and breeding of rice 2. 2. Biological characteristics and breeding of wheat 3. 3. Biological characteristics and breeding of soybean 4. Breeding crops: Similarities and differences between rice, wheat, and soybean Physiological and ecological characteristics and production (Crop Science Laboratory); 5. Production and consumption of rice, wheat, and soybeans 6. Principles and mathematics of crop plant growth 7. Rice production and physiology, and global warming 8. Soybean production, physiology, and increase in production Characteristics and improvements from the viewpoint of quality science (Food Quality Design and Development Laboratory); 9. Characteristics of crops from quality science viewpoint 10. Rice and wheat quality science 11. Soybean quality science 12. Quality design in crops An introduction to the agricultural analysis of phenotype in production sites (Plant Production Control Laboratory), 13. New analysis technology for crop genome 14. Predicting developmental traits from the genome 15. Feedback (questions and general discussion) |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy |
Evaluation method: General score evaluation (participation in class, quizzes, reports, comments in class) The evaluation criteria and policies are based on those described in the Student Handbook of the Faculty of Agriculture for the relevant academic year. |
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| Course Requirements | None in particular | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Even those unfamiliar with rice, wheat, and soybean are welcome. We would like to recommend all the students in the Department of Bioresource Science, the Faculty of Agriculture, encounter the major crops in Japan (and the world) as fast as possible. We will share what are the problems in production of the crops. We will discuss how to solve the problems together. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References |
No other specific textbooks will be used. We will present the handout of the lecture with PandA etc. In the lecture, we may present recommended textbooks and reference books. |
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| References, etc. | In addition, we may present recommended textbooks and reference books during the lecture. | |||
