Lecture “Fundamentals of Plant Nutrition”, 2 SWS
● BSc
● ECTS: 30
● Format: Lecture
● Teaching material: PDF of the slides used
● Goal: The students acquire basic knowledge of plant nutrients. This knowledge is the prerequisite for proper and environmentally conscious fertilization
● Requirements: Basic knowledge of chemistry and biology
● Content: Historical development, essentiality of elements, classification of nutrients, nutrient cycles
● Performance assessment: Multiple choice exam

Exercise “Fundamentals of Plant Nutrition” 2 SWS
● BSc
● ECTS: 30
● Format: Exercise on agricultural crops in the field
● Teaching material: Instruments for measuring the N and Mn supply status of plants
● Goal: The students apply the knowledge from the lecture “Fundamentals of Plant Nutrition”. You will learn to recognize, describe and explain nutritional disorders.
● Requirements: Basic knowledge of biology, plant nutrition and plant cultivation
● Content: Observation and description of plant growth and development, establishment and, if necessary, testing of hypotheses about the causes of observed differences.
● Performance evaluation: attendance, cooperation

Crash course “Fundamentals of Plant Nutrition”, 1 SWS
● BSc
● ECTS: 15
● Format: Lecture
● Teaching material: PDF of the slides used
● Goal: Students learn the most necessary knowledge about nutrients. This knowledge is the prerequisite for proper and environmentally conscious fertilization
● Requirements: Basic knowledge of chemistry and biology
● Content: Historical development, essentiality of elements, classification of nutrients, nutrient cycles
● Performance assessment: Multiple choice exam

Seminar on research, publications, lectures – why and how? 3 blocks, 5 hours each
● Target group: MSc and PhD students
● Certificate of participation
● Format: seminar, exercises
● Teaching material: PDF of the slides used, excerpts from publications, software
● Goal: The participants learn the characteristics of scientific research, from formulating the research question to planning the research, conducting it and evaluating it, all the way to the finished publication of the results in written or oral form, or as a poster.
● Requirements: Basic knowledge of plant cultivation
● Content: Definitions, history of agricultural sciences, importance of research, rules of scientific work including and violations of rules, work steps, tips and tricks

Lecture on fertilizers and fertilization, 2 SWS
● BSc
● ECTS: 30
● Format: Lecture
● Teaching material: PDF of the slides used
● Goal: The students learn about fertilizers, their production, use and implementation processes in the soil.
● Requirements: Basic knowledge of chemistry, soil science and biology
● Content: Production of N, K, P and complex fertilizer. Micronutrient fertilizer. Application of solid and liquid fertilizers. Determination of fertilizer requirements through soil and plant analysis.
● Performance assessment: Multiple choice exam

Lecture Diagnosis of the nutritional status of plants, 2 SWS
● BSc
● ECTS: 30
● Format: Lecture
● Teaching material: PDF of the slides used
● Goal: The students learn the basics, methods and rules of diagnostics. This knowledge is a prerequisite for recognizing, describing and explaining changes to the plant.
● Requirements: Basic knowledge of biology and plant nutrition
● Content: Creativity techniques, problem recognition, causality, setting up and testing hypotheses, deriving measures
● Performance assessment: Multiple choice exam

Exercise “Diagnostics of nutritional status of plants“, 2 SWS
● BSc
● ECTS: 30
● Format: Exercise in the field and in the plant chamber. Own vessel experiment in which nutrient deficiency is provoked
● Teaching material: Instruments for measuring the N and Mn supply status of plants
● Goal: The students apply the knowledge from the lecture. You will learn to recognize, describe and explain nutritional disorders.
● Requirements: Basic knowledge of biology, plant nutrition and plant cultivation
● Content: Observation and description of plant growth and development, establishment and, if necessary, testing of hypotheses about the causes of observed differences.
● Performance evaluation: attendance, cooperation

Lecture History and Methodology of Plant Production Sciences, 2 SWS
● MSc
● ECTS: 30
● Format: Lecture
● Format: Lecture
● Teaching material: PDF of the slides used
● Goal: The students first learn about the development of plant cultivation sciences up to the present day. In the second half of the semester, the characteristics of scientific work are discussed and discussed.
● Requirements: no special requirements
● Content: Definitions. The phases of the development of science from ancient times to modern times (plant cultivation, plant nutrition, plant protection, breeding). Characteristics wscientific work.
● Performance assessment: Multiple choice exam

hybrid Lecture „Innovative Technologies in Crop Production“, 3 SWS
● MSc
● ECTS: 30 + 15
● Format: Lecture, independent work and short presentation
● Teaching material: PDF of the slides used
● Goal: Students learn the characteristics of innovations and the differences from inventions. They use examples to recognize and evaluate innovations in crop production.
● Requirements: Basic knowledge of plant cultivation
● Content: Definitions, how innovations come about from problems, previous problem solutions and new solution approaches developed from them
● Performance assessment: Multiple choice exam