| CODE | AGR2560 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Systematics, Conservation and Ethnobotany | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Rural Sciences and Food Systems | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Objectives: To explain the division of medicinal plants in different plant families and ways and means to preserve the plant species in situ and ex situ, using modern and traditional methods. Contents: Main medicinal plant families (Compositae, Labiatae, Cruciferae, Umbelliferae, Rosaceae, Liliaceae, etc.); Wild Stocks and cultivated species; Conservation (in situ, ex situ, genebanks); Cultivation practices of common herbs (propagation methods, irrigation, fertilisation, pest and disease management); History of Herb use (Culinary, Medicinal); Traditional medicine (data acquisition and sorting); Poisonous plants. Readings List: Lecture handouts. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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