Course: Ecophysiology and Analysis of Growth and Development (4905-462)

Persons:

• Prof. Dr. Georg Cadisch (verantwortlich)
• Dr. Thomas Hilger (begleitend)

Type of Course:

lecture with practicals

In-Class Hours Per Week:

2

Contents:

This lecture provides knowledge on growth and development of four vier tropical crops (rice, cassava, oil palm and cowpea) and the concept of crop growth analysis. The impact of temperature, day length, photoperiodism and solar radiation will be discussed.
In the practical part, students apply field methods to determine crop growth rates, leaf area index and light transmission.

Literature:

Alvim, P. and T.T. Kozlowski. 1977. Ecophysiology of Tropical Crops, Academic Press, New York;

Lüttge, U. 1997. Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants. Springer, Heidelberg;

Pearcy, R.W. et al (eds). 1989. Plant Physiological Ecology - Field Methods and Instrumentation. Chapman and Hall, London;

Smith, W.C.. 2003. Evolution, history, production, and technology. Wiley, New Jersey;

J. H. V. Corley and P. B. Tinker (Eds.) 2003. The oil palm. Blackwell Science, Oxford 4. ed.;

R. J. Hillocks (Ed.). 2001. Cassava: biology, production and utilization. CABI Publ.,Wallingford

Location:

Hohenheim

Remarks:

Lecture notes are available in Ilias under M4905-460

Module:

• 4905-460 Modeling of Agroecosystems (compulsory)