Analysis and Enlightenment of the Curriculum of Clinical Plant Science in Japan
- Received Date: 10/01/2022
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Key words:
- plant medicine /
- plant health /
- discipline integration /
- curriculum
Abstract: The course of plant protection trains talents engaged in integrated pest management, which has made great contributions to the development of agriculture in China. However, due to the transformation of agriculture production mode and excessive input of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, non-infectious diseases have occurred frequently in recent years, and revealed the drawbacks of traditional plant protection. The specialty of plant medicine trains talents engaged in plant health management. Plant medicine emphasizes the prevention of various disasters by regulating plant health, which can make up for the shortcomings of current plant protection. With the development of economy and society in China, more and more experts suggested to transform pest centered plant protection to plant health centered plant medicine, but the curriculum setting of the plant medicine major is yet ambiguous in China. A mature curriculum of plant medicine has been established in the Japanese universities. They focus on integrating multidisciplinary knowledge to manage the plant health. This paper introduced the curriculum of the plant medicine major in Hosei University, which is valuable to develop plant medicine education in China.