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Lecturer(s)
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Křístková Eva, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
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Smýkal Petr, prof. Ing. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Biodiversity, cultivated plants and crop wild relatives, their relation and protection - institutions (e.g. gene banks), laws. Centres of origin of crop plats. Evolution of crops. Cereals - major species, minor species. Legumes. Tuber crops. Fruit trees and shrubs, vine, hops. Vegetables. Oilseed and sugar crops. Fibre crops. Practical exercises are aimed at selected cultivated crops and their wild relatives, and student will train basic cultivation practices and research methods.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Projection (static, dynamic), Laboratory Work
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Learning outcomes
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Plants and men, beginnings of domestication and crop cultivation, cultivated crops and their wild relatives.
After attending the course, student should be able to: Describe various types of economically important plants, their development and use; Explain origin of sected crops; Characterise the gene centres of selected economically important plants. Apply acquired knowledge in relation to other courses of Botany, in plant prostection and during teaching the biology on basic schools.
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Prerequisites
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Knowledge of plant morphology, system of higher plants, fundamental genetics.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Mark, Oral exam
Knowledge in extent of the lectures, oral exam, 100% attendance at practices.
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Recommended literature
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Domin, K. (1945). Užitkové rostliny.
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Hammer, K., Pérez, M.Á.E., Long, C. (2025). Diversity and Geography of Cultivated Plants. Boca Raton, FL, USA.
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Hanelt, P., (ed.). (2001). Mansfeld's encyklopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops: (except ornamentals).. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Chloupek O. (2000). Genetická diversita, šlechtění a semenářství. 2. vydání, Academia, Praha.
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Jirásek F. (1955). Pěstujeme teplomilné rostliny. Praha.
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Ladizinski G. (1998). Plant Evoluition under Domestication.
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Mareček, Pekárková a kol. (1994). Zahradnický slovník naučný. Praha.
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Polívka, F. (1996). Užitkové a pamětihodné rostliny cizích zemí. Praha.
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S. L. Greene et al. (eds.). (2019). North American Crop Wild Relatives, vol. 1 and 2.
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Schwanitz F. (1969). Vývoj kulturních rostlin. Praha.
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Singh R.J. (ed). (2004). Genetic resources, chromosome engineering, and crop improvement, vol. 1-6.
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Smartt J., Simmonds N.W. (1995). Evolution of Crop Plants. Second edition.. Longman Group UK Limited.
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Stalker H.T., Warburton M.L., Harlan J.R. (2021). Harlan's Crops and Man: People, Plants and Their Domestication. USA.
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Valíček, P. et al. (2002). Užitkové rostliny tropů a subtropů. Praha.
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Zohary D., Hopf M. (1994). Domestication of plants in the Old World. Oxford.
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