Ateneo - UPO

Relationship between demographic evolution of human population (from past tgo present) and food poduction, plant domestication and use of medern technology in plant biology and agricolture

1) Chrispeeel and Gept: Plants, Genes, and Agricolture: Suastainability through Biotechnology, Piccin 2021
2) Lecture slides

To keep science based discussion on problems linked to food production by biotechnological methods, also from a mediatic point of view

Basic plant physiology

Lectures

none

The student will discuss a further elaboration of an assigned topic

i) Demographic evolution of human population;
ii) food production and agricolture history;
iii) early biotech: plant domestication;
iv) molecular genetics aspects of plant dimestication;
v) green revolution and its conseuqnces;
vi) GMO
vii) why we need biotechnology to further develop agricolture;
viii) examples
ix) plants and climate changes
x) extreme climatic events and human migration

The student should be able to discuss in a critical form relationships among the need to produce food, environment and technology