Plant Sciences (BPW) / BSc

Aims

The subject area Plant Sciences focuses on scientific and applied aspects of crop production, along the chain from starting materials and seed to food and consumer goods. The BSc programme is characterised by a multidisciplinary approach of agricultural cases. Central is an increasing demand for safe agricultural products for the expanding world population whereas the available farmland area is declining. The critical consumer's attitude towards mode of production and food safety is also taken into account.

The scope of the BSc programme includes the following basic disciplines of plant production:
- plant breeding (optimisation of the genetic composition of seed stock);
- crop ecology (plant production systems and chains, weed ecology);
- crop health (plant pathology, entomology, nematology, bacteriology, virology).

Related to this students will get acquainted with various subject areas linked to plant production, including:
- land use (both regionally and globally);
- chain management (quality management, processing);
- societal context (sociology, ethics, health, safety);
- economic aspects (agricultural business systems, agricultural business economics, management, environmental economy);
- extension work;
- (inter) national policy;
- knowledge management (contract research, project management, intellectual property).

Programme coordinator

Dr A Kuipers
Phone: 0317-(4)82853
Email: anja.kuipers@wur.nl

Study adviser(s)

- Dr ir HJ van Eck (plantenveredeling)
Phone: 0317-(4)82835
Email: herman.vaneck@wur.nl
- Dr ir RJM Kormelink (gewasbescherming)
Phone: 0317-(4)83085
Email: richard.kormelink@wur.nl
- Drs C.A. Langeveld
Phone: 0317-(4)82140
Email: cor.langeveld@wur.nl

Study association

Semper Florens
Binnenhaven 5
6709 PD Wageningen
Website: http://www.dpw.wau.nl/semperflorens

Unconditional admission to the MSc

- Plant Sciences
- Bioinformatics
- Management of Agro-Ecological Knowledge & Social Change
- Organic Agriculture
- Plant Biotechnology