The aim of this course is to provide the students’ knowledge and training in genetics and breeding of allogamous (cross-fertilized) crop species, including annual, semi-perennial, and perennial crop species. Thus, this course is directed to the students that intend to develop both basic, as the study of the genetic structure of populations and statistical-genetic designs, and applied research, as the study of the selection methods for the development and improvement of cultivars. It is the only course in this post-graduate program that addresses the subjects related to the breeding and genetics of allogamous crop species. Therefore, for this program, this course could be deemed of paramount importance for those students that intend to carry out research in genetics and/or plant breeding programs of allogamous crops in public or private institutions. Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ) Piracicaba campus Genetic structure of allogamous species. Population effective size. Conservation of the accesses of germplasm banks. Covariance of relatives at intra- and interpopulation levels. Components of the genetic variance for populations at any level of inbreeding. Heterosis and inbreeding depression. Selection of parents for the development of reference populations. Responses to selection at intra- and interpopulation methods. Effects of the genetic drift and the inbreeding depression in response to selection. Changes in the heterosis and the inbreeding depression through selection. Theoretical responses to intra- and interpopulation recurrent selection. Comparison of the selection methods for perennial, semi-perennial, annual crop species, and asexual reproduction plant species. Recurrent selection, early selection, selection index, and observations repeated in temporal times. Responses to selection under abiotic stressed environments. Correlated responses to selection under any level of inbreeding. Molecular markers and plant breeding: backcross assisted selection; development of heterotic groups; hybrid prediction; genome-wide selection. Roberto Fritsche Neto 23 LGN5825 8 02 Written tests, participation during classes and weekly exercises in R. http://pt.esalq.usp.br/

Genome sequencing of domestic animals and advances in quantitative genetics have enable new approaches in animal breeding. This course will talk about recent advances in the area of quantitative genetics and genomics and the aplications in beef cattle breeding. The course will have the contribution of especialists in different areas. Provide the principles of quantitative genetics aplied to genome selection and genomics, so the students can understand a contribute to the development of this new area. Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ) Piracicaba campus The U.S. Beef Industry: Structure and Current Genetic Selection Programs; Priors in the Bayesian Alphabet; Developing Genomic Predictions: Training and Evaluation; Additive genomic relationship matrix and GBLUP; Haplotype-based models: BayesIM; Interpreting “genomic correlations” and pleiotropy; Tour of Genomics Center; Population structure in admixed populations; Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces regression; GO enrichment analysis; MeSH enrichment analysis; GO / MeSH enrichment analysis in Bioconductor Luiz Lehmann Coutinho, Gerson Barreto Mour_o 75 LZT5869 4 University of Sao Paulo,Universidade de Campinas and Universidade Estadual Paulista Student participation and Exam. http://pt.esalq.usp.br/

The proposed program includes experimental designs used in the agricultural experimentation whose structure requires special attention due to the methodology applied for the analysis of the obtianed data. Aims to provide a solid methodological basis for the use of models in the analysis of continuous data and in research, involving concepts of matrix algebra and statistical inference, teaching Hasse diagrams, linear models for incomplete data using the theory of mixed models, including the estimation techniques, checking of model fitting, diagnostics, inference and confidence intervals. Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ) Piracicaba campus Hasse Diagrams. Unbalanced cross-classifications. Split-plot experiments. Split-Block experiments. Incomplete block designs. Lattice squares. Groups of experiments. Groups of experiments with common treatments (augmented block). Introduction to mixed models. Sonia Maria de Stefano Piedade, Clarice Garcia Borges Demetrio, Taciana Villela Savian 25 LCE5872 8 Evaluation tests and Seminars http://pt.esalq.usp.br/

Systems analysis is a powerful way to explore and analyse the dynamics of interacting entities. In the case of crop health, systems approaches enable understanding the interaction between pests (plant pathogens and pests) and crops. Systems approaches also allow addressing the impact of the environment (e.g., physical: weather, social: human actions, economic, etc.) on these interactions. A broad context for plant health and its management can therefore be envisioned, including for example socio-economic context of production, trade, and policies. To introduce concepts and methods of systems analysis, and their application to the study, analysis, and management of crop health. Students will acquire a broadened understanding of the dynamics and the impact of plant diseases and pests on crop (agricultural) production, as well as on the environment, and on society and the economy. This will be achieved through systems approach techniques, including but not limited to, simulation modelling. Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ) Piracicaba campus This course considers crop health  the collective dynamics of diseases and pests as a whole in a crop. Crop health depends on production situations, that is to say, the set of inter-linked environmental, technical, social, and economical factors that determine the context where agricultural production takes place. Understanding the joint evolution of crop health and production situations is important for future plant health professionals. Brazil occupies a very important position in global agricultural and food trade. The course will introduce issues pertaining to global food and agricultural security, and to globalization, because of their implications for crop health. Systems analysis covers a range of techniques that enable exploring and understanding large and complex questions. One of the approaches of systems analysis, mechanistic simulation modelling, will in particular be used as a methodological backbone for the course. Simulation modelling will be introduced and explained in the course. 1  Context of agricultural production and crop health – Introduction to systems analysis and simulation – Examples of production situations and associated crop health syndromes – Illustration of shifts in production situations leading to crop health changes – Introduction to global agriculture, global crop health problems – Introduction to the effects of global changes on agriculture, crop health – Crop health and global food security – General strategies to manage crop health 2 _Systems analysis: introduction and application to crop health – Systems analysis: concepts and methods – Production levels, crop losses – Damage mechanisms caused by pests – Simulation modelling – Management of natural resources – Negative impacts of agriculture – Long-term disease and pest management Armando Bergamin Filho, Laetitia Willocquet, Serge Savary 30 LFT5890 2 The course will be held during 2 weeks in February: first week for classes and second week for practical activities. Presentation of a case study http://pt.esalq.usp.br/

Within the strategic objectives of CENA, the “Productivity and Agribusiness Food” includes the programs for plant breeding and production and food preservation, whose scientific research deals in many cases with the use of nuclear techniques in biological systems. The course will provide the basics of different nuclear and related techniques used in developing research on agricultural productivity, aiming to secure and qualitative development of scientific works. Present nuclear and related techniques as tool for studying factors affecting animal productivity and its interaction with the environment, through nutritional evaluation of feeds, the study of nutrient metabolism, quantification and identification of bioactive molecules present in foods and by-products and studies for mitigating greenhouse gases by animals. Center of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA) Piracicaba campus The use of isotopic markers such as 13C, 51Cr, 32P, 45Ca and 15N and the radiation is discussed in understanding the way as the microorganisms in the rumen of animals digest forages and other foods; how the radiation may increase the digestibility of fibrous foods and how radioisotopes and radiation are important tools for studying the real absorption of minerals; besides being discussed the use of markers such as 125I and 3H for determination of hormones by immunohistochemical analysis to monitor reproductive functions of female domestic interest. It is also studied food and diet regarding the in vivo production of methane produced by ruminants by systems using single chambers and tracer gas SF6. Practical classes will analyze different products to follow techniques of chemical analysis; estimates of total digestible nutrients and gas production in the evaluation of food; Beyond the determination of minimum requirements of minerals in domestic animals; digestibility in vivo and in vitro determination of bioactive molecules in food and quantification of enteric methane. Adibe Luiz Abdalla, Helder Louvani 20 CEN5740 12 Assessment through seminars with the presentation of the results obtained in practical classes. http://www.cena.usp.br/

1.INTRODUCTION(MING-JU CHEN/DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)

2.SOIL CHARACTERISTICS, POLLUTION AND REMEDIATION TECHNIQUES IN TAIWAN

(ZUENG-SANG CHEN/DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY)

3.VEGETATION ECOLOGY AND DIVERSITY OF TAIWAN (KUO-FANG CHUNG/SCHOOL OFFOREST AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION)

4.FRUIT PRODUCTION IN TAIWAN(KUO-TAN LI/DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE)

5.CONTROL TECHNIQUES OF IMPORTANT DISEASES OF FRUIT TREES IN TAIWAN(TING-HSUAN HUNG/DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PATHOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY)

6.CROP BREEDING IN TAIWAN(YANN-RONG LIN/DEPARTMENT OF AGRONOMY)

7.TAIWAN FLORAL INDUSTRY AND POSTHARVEST TECHNIQUES (JEN-CHIH CHEN/INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY)

8.STATUS QUO OF PEST CONTROL IN TAIWANESE AGRICULTURE (HOW-JING LEE/DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY)


9.INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC LIVESTOCK IN TAIWAN (YU-TEN JU/DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)

10.ANIMAL DISEASE PROTECTION AND QUARANTINE IN TAIWAN(CHIN-CHENG CHOU/SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE)

11.APPLICATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY ON MODERN AGRICULTURE (MEN-CHI CHANG/DEPARTMENT OF AGRONOMY)

12.AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND FUNCTIONAL FOODS IN TAIWAN(YI-CHEN LO/INSTITUTE OF FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)

13.ADVANCED BIOTECHNOLOGIES FOR ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION(LI-YING SUNG/INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY)

14.INTRODUCTION TO AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING IN TAIWAN (MING-CHE HU/Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering)

15.AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION IN TAIWAN(SUMING CHEN,CHUNG-KEE YEH/DEPARTMENT OF BIO-INDUSTRIAL MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING)

16.AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION IN TAIWAN (HSUI-PING YUEH/DEPARTMENT OF BIO-INDUSTRY COMMUNICATION AND DEVELOPMENT)

17.AGRICULTURAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND THE RESPONDING STRATEGY(RHUNG-JIEH WOO/DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS)

18.FINAL EXAM
College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture MING JU CHEN Wednesday 34 AniSci5028 2

This course is aimed to integrate economic principals and planning tools to develop management skills which can be applied in agricultural sector. Major topics including: I. Fundamental of Management Planning Organizing Leading Controlling II. Strategic Management/Business Plan Goal setting Internal analysis External analysis Crafting strategy Strategic control III. Marketing Strategy Product Price Place Promotion IV. Financial Management Financial statements and ratio analysis Investment and capital budgeting Students are expected to be independent study and team work in classroom. College of Bio-Resources & Agriculture Main Campus Ambition, Gratitude, Enthusiasm, Curiosity Li-Fen Lei 20 Wednesday 2,3,4 AGEC7080 (627EM4750) 3 *Registration eligibility: international students. http://www.agec.ntu.edu.tw/main.php?lang=en&Trad2Simp=n