Plant Production
Contacts
| Head of Department | ||
|---|---|---|
| prof. Ing. Vladislav Čurn, Ph.D. | (+420) 387 772 935 | vcurn@zf.jcu.cz |
| Assistant of Department | ||
| Ing. Zdeněk Štěrba, Ph.D. | (+420) 387 772 938 | zsterba@zf.jcu.cz |
| Secretary of Department | ||
| Marta Beníšková | (+420) 387 772 934 | benisek@zf.jcu.cz |
Department profile:
About Department
The department’s history is as long as the history of the Faculty of Agriculture. It was established in 1960. Educational, scientific and research activities of the department have always focused on plant growing, breeding and protection, landscape protection and plant biotechnologies.
The department is a guarantor of the following Bachelor study programmes: Agriculture, Agricultural biotechnology, Agribusiness, Agricultural ecology and Sustainable systems in agricultural land. It is also a guarantor of the following Master study programmes: Agriculture engineering, Plant biotechnology, Agricultural ecology, Phytotechnics, Biology and protection of "hobby" organisms. And, last but not least, it is a guarantor of the following Doctoral study programmes: Specialized plant production, Agricultural biotechnology and Applied and landscape ecology.
Scientific and research activities of the Division of Plant Growing focus upon impact evaluation. They aim at studying the impact of growing factors on yield rate and quality of field plant production. It also deals with evaluation of the production and the non-production use of perennial grasslands. Concerning the Division of Plant Health, scientific and research activities focus on biological and integrated protection of plants against insects, pests and fungal diseases that may infest field plants, agricultural plants and forests. Scientific and research activities of the Division of Landscape Protection focus on anthropogenically conditioned changes in landscape, relations between agricultural farming systems and functional ecological characteristics of landscape. Results of the Division’s scientific activities provoked various landscape management measures that have been adopted. Such measures assure a dynamic and managed protection of landscape and nature in general. The Centre of Biotechnology deals with plant biotechnology, and applied molecular plant biology. Applied molecular plant biology studies molecular markers applied in the plant breeding process in order to identify and describe varieties and plant genetic resources, detect GMOs etc. New molecular selection markers have been bred and developed and they are applied in the molecular ecology, and taxonomy. Polyfactorial evaluation and molecular markering of fungal species are also significant activities the Division has engaged in.
