The College of Plant Sciences was established in 2004 after the former Department of Agricultural and Sideline Production of China People's Liberation Army Quartermaster University was merged into Jilin University, integrating the dominant disciplines. The college includes agronomy and science and engineering, involving biology, crop science, plant protection, agricultural resource utilization, horticulture and mechanical engineering. The college consists of crop department, plant protection department, horticulture department, agricultural resources and environment department, basic biology department, mechanical engineering and automation department, agricultural teaching and research practice base and mechanical engineering teaching and experimental practice base.
Department of crop science
The crop line was established in 1988. In 2004, according to the needs of military construction and development, it was transferred to the local area with the PLA Quartermaster University as a whole. At present, it is the crop department of the College of Plant Science, Ministry of Agriculture, Jilin University, with teaching and research sections on genetics and breeding, crop production and meteorology.
The faculty of Crop Department is strong, with staff 10, including 3 professors, 2 lecturers, 2 agronomists, teaching assistants 1 person, assistant experimenters 1 person and experimental technicians 1 person. Among the in-service teachers, there are 2 teachers with doctoral degrees, 2 teachers who are studying for doctoral degrees, 2 teachers with master's degrees and 3 teachers who are studying for master's degrees.
On the basis of the original agronomy specialty, after more than ten years of accumulation and efforts, the reform and adjustment of the specialty have been basically completed, and in 2005, the authorization point for the master's degree in crop science was successfully applied for. Agronomy specialty includes crop genetics and breeding, crop cultivation and agrometeorology, among which crop genetics and breeding is one of the earliest master's degree authorization points in the history of our college. The main courses offered are basic biochemistry, plant physiology, botany, field experiment and statistics, general ecology, general genetics, crop breeding, crop cultivation and cultivation, seed science, microbiology, plant biotechnology, genetic engineering, agricultural economics, agricultural mechanization, bioinformatics and so on. The main research directions of this discipline include: the application of genetic engineering in plant breeding, genetic improvement of plant nutrition, the application of plant molecular markers, the research of new crop production technologies and the cultivation of new crop varieties.
Since its establishment, Crop Department has undertaken and participated in more than 20 national 863 plan, national natural science foundation and provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, with a total scientific research funding of about 5 million yuan. He has successively won 6 second prizes and 3 third prizes for military scientific and technological progress, 2 second prizes 1 for teaching achievements of the whole army, 2 national patent applications and 2 provincial scientific and technological achievement awards. He has published nearly 100 papers in academic journals at home and abroad. Crops Department has long-term and stable scientific research cooperation with China Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and other teaching and scientific research units. Maintain regular academic exchanges and exchanges with Hokuriku Agricultural Research Center of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
Agriculture is the foundation of national economy, and 2 1 century is the century of biological science. As a part of life science, crop science is closely combined with plant biotechnology and computer science, which provides a broader development prospect for resource utilization, variety selection and crop production.
After graduation, students can engage in teaching and scientific research in institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutes, agricultural management departments engage in management and technology promotion, seed companies at all levels engage in seed management, domestic and foreign trading companies engage in agricultural products trade, and news publishing units engage in the promotion and popularization of agricultural scientific and technological knowledge. You can also apply for a master's degree in this major or similar majors for further study.
The Department of Crop Science will focus on the discipline construction of crop genetics and breeding, give consideration to the cultivation of crop cultivation, agronomy and new research directions, strengthen the two foundations of discipline condition construction and talent construction, introduce and cultivate more academic leaders with certain influence in China, significantly improve the overall level of scientific research and technological innovation ability, promote the leap-forward development of discipline construction, and make the Department of Crop Science reach the leading level in teaching and research in China.
Plant protection system
The Department of Plant Protection is affiliated to the College of Plant Science of Jilin University. The Department of Plant Protection was established after the Military University of the People's Liberation Army was handed over to the local government. In 2004, it began to recruit undergraduates majoring in plant protection. The Department of Plant Protection was formerly the Department of Plant Protection of China People's Liberation Army Agriculture and Animal Husbandry University. Since its establishment, the Department of Plant Protection of PLA Agriculture and Animal Husbandry University merged with the Department of Microbiology in 1999 after more than 10 years, and the team has been expanding continuously.
The Department of Plant Protection has three teaching and research sections: Plant Pathology, Entomology and Insecticide. This department is a department with a short history in the College of Plant Science, Agricultural Department of Jilin University. He has a master's degree (Plant Pathology) and trained more than 30 graduate students. The academic leader is Professor Pan Hongyu, the current president of the College of Plant Sciences, and all the existing full-time teachers have or are studying for doctoral degrees.
The Department of Plant Protection currently undertakes undergraduate and postgraduate courses in general entomology, general plant pathology, agricultural entomology, agricultural plant pathology, phytochemical protection, molecular plant pathology, disease epidemiology, biological control of pests, research methods of plant diseases and insect research methods. The Department of Plant Protection has four professional research rooms and laboratories, including the Integrated Pest Control Research Center and the Plant Protection Research Room. These laboratories are fully equipped with a total value of more than 2 million yuan. Mainly engaged in molecular plant pathology, integrated pest control, resource entomology and its utilization, insect virology, pesticide residue and analysis.
Since 1995, * * * has undertaken more than 20 scientific research projects, including 3 national natural science funds and 4 provincial and ministerial projects 14. At present, it undertakes scientific research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation, the Ministry of Education, the Science and Technology Department of Jilin Province, and the Military Supplies Department of the General Logistics Department, with research funding of 1 10,000 yuan. Great progress has been made in teaching and research. In recent years, * * * has won the provincial science and technology progress award 1, three military science and technology progress awards, three national teaching achievement awards 1, three provincial and ministerial teaching achievement awards, six books, and 60 papers published in academic journals at home and abroad, including three SCI and three EI.
Over the years, the Department of Plant Protection has established good and stable cooperative relations with China Agricultural University, Nanjing Agricultural University, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Jilin Agricultural University, and conducted academic exchanges on a regular basis.
Brief introduction of horticulture department
Horticulture specialty was established on the basis of the Horticulture Teaching and Research Department of the Department of Agriculture and Agricultural Machinery of the former PLA Quartermaster University. Courses such as vegetable cultivation and fruit tree cultivation have been set up for agronomy specialty and agricultural sideline specialty, which has formed characteristics in plant soilless cultivation, green food and vegetable production research. It has formed advantages in the popularization of science and technology and consulting services, and has made outstanding contributions to the scientific and technological services of troops and rural areas in remote and difficult areas. Currently, she is a horticulture major in the College of Plant Science of Jilin University, and undertakes courses such as horticulture, agronomy, plant protection, facility horticulture, general theory of horticulture, horticultural plant breeding, ornamental horticulture, landscape planning and design, garden engineering, fruit tree cultivation, vegetable cultivation, flower cultivation, lawn science, etc.
There are 7 teachers in the department, including professor 1, associate professor 2, lecturer 3 and teaching assistant 1. There are teaching and research sections for horticultural plant cultivation, horticultural plant breeding, ornamental gardening and landscape planning and design. Horticultural professionals have long been engaged in scientific research in soilless culture, green food production, horticultural facilities, ornamental gardening, landscape planning and design. He presided over many projects of 10. He has successively won two second prizes for military scientific and technological progress and the third prize for Jilin scientific and technological progress 1 item, published more than 50 papers and compiled more than one monograph1item.
At present, the main research directions are:
1, using modern biotechnology and traditional physical and chemical technology to carry out innovative research on horticultural plant germplasm resources;
2. The soilless culture technology of vegetables and flowers mainly studies the mechanism of soilless culture of vegetables and flowers, the development of nutrient solution formula and the design of soilless culture facilities;
3. Research on green food and vegetable production technology: Start with breeding, cultivate disease-resistant varieties and varieties with low concentration of toxic and harmful substances, and fundamentally control the accumulation of toxic and harmful substances in vegetable products. At present, valuable materials have been screened from Chinese cabbage and green leafy vegetables. At the same time, the cultivation mechanism of green food vegetables was studied.
4. The research on the breeding of special varieties for fruits, vegetables and cucumbers in protected areas mainly aims at the environmental characteristics and cultivation season of protected areas, and cultivates high-yield varieties which are resistant to diseases, low temperature and weak light and suitable for protected areas;
5. Study on Rapid Propagation Technology of Ornamental Horticultural Plant Seedlings With the breeding goal of strong disease resistance, strong growth potential and beautiful and uniform flower shape and color, we have cultivated our own original varieties on Bulbous Begonia and Rieger Begonia. At the same time, the rapid propagation of begonia bulbifera seedlings by cloning technology. Cultivate your own original species in Phalaenopsis, Cymbidium hybridum and Dendrobium, and create conditions for export to earn foreign exchange;
6. Research and utilization of biodiversity of wild horticultural plants in Changbai Mountain: The diversity and application of medicinal, edible and ornamental plants in wild plants in Northeast China were studied. At the same time, develop and utilize disease-resistant gene resources.
Cultivate students' graduation destination
After graduation, students majoring in this major can face scientific research institutions, universities, government agencies, fruit trees, vegetables, flower production units, agricultural tourism enterprises, agricultural high-tech demonstration parks, agricultural technology extension departments and related units, and can also apply for graduate students majoring in horticulture and biology. Graduates can be engaged in fruit trees, vegetables, ornamental gardening plant cultivation, urban landscape design, breeding, production, management, teaching, scientific research, technology promotion and other positions.
Introduction to the Department of Agricultural Resources and Environmental Science
Our department was established in 1988. In 2004, according to the needs of military construction and development, it was transferred to the local area with the PLA Quartermaster University as a whole, merged into Jilin University, and integrated superior disciplines. Now it belongs to the College of Plant Science of Jilin University. Our department can now recruit students of different levels, such as doctor of botany, master of plant nutrition, master of agricultural extension in agricultural resources utilization, and undergraduate of agricultural resources and environment.
There are 7 full-time teachers in this department, including professor 1 person, 3 associate professors and 3 lecturers. Except 1, they are all doctors. Doctoral supervisor 1 person, 4 master supervisors and 2 visiting professors.
The staff of our department have been engaged in teaching and scientific research in soil, plant nutrition and agricultural environmental protection for a long time, and have taught graduate students and undergraduates courses such as plant nutrition and fertilization, soil science, soil fertilizer science, agricultural environmental protection, higher plant nutrition, genetic improvement of plant nutrition and soil chemistry of plant nutrition. The physiological and biochemical mechanisms of plant stress resistance (aluminum toxicity) and allelopathy (continuous cropping obstacle), efficient utilization of nutrients (low potassium, new fertilizer) and application of microorganisms in the environment were systematically and deeply studied. In recent years, he has presided over and participated in more than 20 scientific research projects at home and abroad, such as the National Ninth Five-Year Plan, the National Natural Science Foundation, the study abroad fund, the projects funded by the Japanese Institute, and the horizontal projects of enterprises. He won the second prize of scientific and technological progress in the army and the first prize of science and technology in Heilongjiang Province, and published 4 textbooks and edited books. In recent five years, nearly 100 papers have been published in academic journals at home and abroad, including 12 papers in foreign language journals of SCI and 3 papers in EI. At present, there are more than one research project 10 under the National Natural Science Foundation, provincial and ministerial level, and horizontal projects of enterprises, and the funds are more than one million yuan.
Over the years, our department has established stable scientific research cooperation relations with China Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang University, China Agricultural University, Nanjing Agricultural University, South China Agricultural University and other related research institutes, and maintained regular academic exchanges with many foreign universities or scientific research units such as Okayama University, Royal Danish Veterinary and Agricultural University.
Our department covers agronomy and science, including plant nutrition and environmental science. It is a new discipline with strong comprehensiveness, wide adaptability and great development prospect.
Main research direction: Direction 1. Plant nutrition ecology
(1) Physiological and molecular biological mechanism of plant stress resistance: To study the stress resistance mechanism of plants to low potassium and aluminum toxicity at physiological, biochemical and molecular levels. In particular, the stress response characteristics and mechanism of soybean under aluminum toxicity stress were systematically studied, which was supported by two national natural science funds.
(2) Application of plant allelopathy in agricultural sustainable development: Using allelopathy among organisms, an agricultural ecosystem resistant to diseases, pests and weeds is constructed, thus reducing the input of artificial chemicals and realizing the sustainable and harmonious development of environment-friendly agriculture.
Direction two. Agricultural ecological environment
(1) Environmental Microbiology Technology and Bioengineering: To study the inhibition mechanism of soil pathogenic microorganisms on crop growth, and to screen and apply beneficial microorganisms for ecological agriculture construction and bioremediation of environmental pollution.
(2) Research and development of new fertilizers: The main research content is the research and development of environment-friendly slow-release fertilizers.
(3) Nutrition resource management
(4) Soil erosion and water and soil environmental effects.
Introduction to the Department of Basic Biology
The Department of Basic Biology is affiliated to the College of Plant Science, Department of Agriculture, Jilin University. Its predecessor can be traced back to 1953 at the earliest, after more than 50 years of construction and development.
The Department of Basic Biology has 1 post-doctoral mobile station in biology, 1 doctoral program in botany, 2 master programs, and1teacher, including 2 doctoral supervisors and 3 master supervisors. At present, the academic leader is Professor Li Yanfang, executive director of botanical society of china, vice chairman of Jilin Botanical Society and Genetic Society, civilian major general and doctoral supervisor. The academic leader is Professor Yuan Yaping, director of Jilin Genetic Society, director of the Department of Basic Biology and doctoral supervisor.
The Department provides graduate students and undergraduates with different levels of courses, including botany, biology, microbiology, plant biochemistry, plant physiology, plant biotechnology, principles and techniques of genetic engineering, plant cell and tissue culture, transgenic plants and their safety, plant genomics and plant protein genomics.
At present, the department has plant biotechnology laboratory, biology laboratory, plant physiology and biochemistry laboratory, cell engineering laboratory and plant genetic engineering research center. , equipped with complete experimental instruments, with a total value of more than 3 million yuan. Mainly engaged in gene isolation and cloning, gene expression regulation mechanism analysis, molecular markers, protein analysis, plant transgenic technology, cell engineering technology, chromosome engineering technology, plant molecular breeding and other research work. He has undertaken research work on more than 40 topics, including plant transgenic research, national special projects of pilot test and industrialization, national "863" project youth fund, national natural science fund, Ministry of Education, Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Department, Jilin Provincial Agriculture Department and Jilin Provincial Forestry Department, and has obtained more than 7 million yuan of research funds. After years of hard work, he won more than 20 scientific research achievement awards at all levels. Over the years, more than 50 doctoral and master students have been trained for the military and local governments. At present, there are more than 30 postdoctoral, doctoral and master students.
Over the years, the Department of Basic Biology has established stable scientific cooperation relations with Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Northeast Normal University, and maintained regular academic exchanges with many foreign universities and scientific research units.
Introduction to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Automation
The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Automation was mainly established by the Department of Military Equipment Technology and Management and the Department of Mechanical Foundation of the former Military University, and now it is affiliated to the College of Plant Science of the Agricultural Department of Jilin University. At present, the main teaching object of this department is mechanical engineering and automation specialty of grade 2004, and it also undertakes related courses of agronomy, plant protection, horticulture, agricultural resources and environment, food science and engineering, food quality and safety, animal science and other majors.
Among the teaching staff, there are currently 5 full-time teachers in the department, including senior title 1 person, intermediate title 1 person and 3 junior titles. Master 1, doctor 1, master 2; Master tutor 1. Due to the shortage of teachers, the department has long-term cooperation with the College of Mechanical Science and Engineering of Jilin University to ensure first-class teaching quality and teaching level.
The department mainly includes electrical and electronic laboratory, automatic control laboratory, mechanical drawing room and mechanical parts laboratory. As an independent unit of the College of Plant Sciences, the mechanical engineering teaching experimental practice base has played a great role in the teaching of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Automation. At the same time, it also contributed to the vigorous development of some experimental courses and elective courses in the department, which was well received by students.
The training goal of mechanical engineering and automation specialty is to cultivate compound senior talents engaged in design, manufacturing, scientific and technological development, applied research and management in the field of mechanical engineering.
The specialty of mechanical engineering and its automation integrates mechatronics, with wide knowledge, high level of knowledge, strong adaptability and great social demand. Graduates can go to state organs, industrial enterprises, economic and trade management, scientific research institutions and institutions of higher learning to engage in mechanical design and manufacturing, research and development, trade, teaching, scientific research and management.