Syllabus
Lectures - Historical and present use of medicinal plants - Medicinal plants according to the length of ontogenesis - Pharmaceutical point of view of the medicinal plant production - Importance of atmosphere, climatology - climate factors, climatological regions and subregions - Phenology - Pedology, soil definition, edaphon - Physiochemical quality of soil - soil profile, soil and landscape types, soil-forming processes, soil structure - Soil fertilization, soil water, soil air, soil erosion - Soil fertility, soil preparation - Importance of water for plants - Main methods of plant improvement, sense of breeding of new varieties , cultivars - Phytopathology of medicinal plants - Plants protection ? chemical protection, biological protection, integrated protection of plants - Weeds - Medicinal plants cultivation, agricultural engineering of individual medicinal plants, crop rotation - Organic, bacterial and artificial fertilizers - Ecological agriculture
Annotation
The content of the subject stems from the knowledge gained from pharmacognosy. On the examples of several plants shows the components of modern agriculture engineering, agrochemistry, knowledge from plant ecology and phytopathology.
Familiarizes students with possibilities and difficulties of cultivation of medicinal plants in bulk production, but also in conditions of patches. The education is divided into lecture part and practical part which takes place in the Garden of Medicinal Plants of Faculty of Pharmacy Charles University.