Ordu University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
TAB602	CULTURE AND BREEDING OF FOOD GRAIN LEGUMES	Compulsory	1	1	6

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle

Objectives of the Course

• to teach food grain legumes biology and culture • to equip students with the knowledge and skills of their breeding • to develop the ability of the students to product food grain legumes features • to allow students become proficient in nitrogen fixation • to give the students basic information about legumes systematic and importance • to provide the basic knowledge about legumes features

Name of Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr.Nuri YILMAZ

Learning Outcomes

1	Bu dersin sonunda öğrenci; Yemeklik baklagillerin yayılma alanları, sınıflandırılması, verim, verim öğeleri ve fizyolojisi, yetiştirme teknikleri ve ıslahı konularında bilgi ve kabiliyetleri geliştirecek;
2	Bu konularla ilgili olarak karşılaşılabileceği problemlere çözüm önerileri üretebilecek,
3	Uygun ders planları geliştirebilecektir.
4	To have the knowledge and skills of food grain legumes, systematic location, morphology and physiology, adaptation, land requirements, breeding and culture
5	Effectively be able to know nitrogen fixation
6	Able to explain the soil preparation to harvest food grain legumes
7	Demonstrate the ability to know legumes breeding and culture

Mode of Delivery

Formal Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

• the general importance of food grain legumes, systematic location, morphology • General breeding, culture, soil requirements, utilization patterns of food grain legumes • Beans, peas, bean, cowpea, lentil and chickpeas economic importance, origin, and wild forms, histories and geographical distributions

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction and economic importance of food grain legumes
2	Food grain legumes for human and animal nutrition and the importance of planting rotation, The importance of nitrogen fixation in legumes
3	Economic importance of beans, origins, geographical distribution, taxonomy, morphology and physiology, chemical composition,
4	Breeding criterias of beans
5	Adaptation of beans, culture: soil tillage, fertilization, planting, seed, maintenance, harvesting and threshing, disease and pests
6	Economic importance of the pea plant, the origin of the wild forms, history and geographical distribution, taxonomy, morphology and physiology, chemical composition,
7	Peas adaptation, culture: soil tillage, fertilization, planting, seed, maintenance, harvesting and threshing, disease and pests.
8	Midterm exam
9	Breeding criterias of peas
10	Economic importance of faba bean, origin, geographical distribution, taxonomy, morphology and physiology, chemical composition, adaptation, culture: soil tillage, fertilization, planting, seed, maintenance, harvesting and threshing, disease and pests
11	Economic importance of black-eyed peas, origin, history and geographical distribution, taxonomy, morphology and physiology, chemical composition, adaptation, culture: soil tillage, fertilization, planting, seed maintenance, harvesting, disease and pests
12	Economic importance of chickpea origin, geographical distribution, taxonomy, morphology and physiology, chemical composition
13	Adaptation of chickpea, culture: soil tillage, fertilization, planting, seed, maintenance, harvesting and threshing, disease and pests
14	Lentil economic importance, origin, history, distribution, taxonomy, morphology, physiology, chemical composition,
15	Adaptation of lentil, culture: soil tillage, fertilization, planting, seed, maintenance, harvesting and threshing, disease and pests
16	Final exam