About Faculty
FACULTY OF AGRONOMY
Postal address: Studentų 11, Akademija, LT-53361 Kauno r.
Dean of Faculty: Assoc. prof. dr. Viktoras Pranckietis
Phone: +370 37 752203; Fax: +370 37 752293; E-mail: af@lzuu.lt
Number of students: 983 Admissions: 255
Faculty provides undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate studies of 6 study programmes and 4 specialisations. At present faculty has 847 undergraduate students (annual admission 208), 106 Master degree students and 31 doctoral students. The teaching staff includes 14 professors, 41 assoc. professors. The main fields of research are: plant breeding methods and biotechnology, improvement of crop growing technologies, biological potential of horticultural plants, ecological and sustainable agriculture, weed management, plant nutrition and soil fertility, agroecology, microbiology.
Departments:
- Botany
- Horticulture
- Plant Growing and Animal Husbandry
- Plant Protection
- Soil Management
- Soil Science and Plant Nutrition
Study programes:
f - full-time studies;
c - part-time studies.
UNDERGRADUATE (BACHELOR) STUDIES:
- Agronomy (f, c)
- Agricultural technologies and Management (f, c)
- Horticulture and planting of greenery (f)
- Bio-social environment and nutrition (f)
GRADUATE MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE STUDIES (f, c):
- Agronomy (specialisations: pedology agro-chemistry and plant protection; plant growing and breeding; ecological and integrated agriculture; safety and quality of plant husbandry products).
- Agrobiotechnology
- Agroecosystems
- Horticulture
POSTGRADUATE DOCTOR DEGREE STUDIES (f, c):
- Agronomy (areas: crop science, horticulture, plant protection, phytopathology, weed science, herbology, genetics, entomology, plant and soil science, soil management, plant - husbandry production storage technology.
Faculty departments and units
Department of Botany
Phone: +370 37 752384 E-mail: bo@lzuu.lt Head of department: Assoc. prof. dr. Simas Gliožeris
Subjects: Plant anatomy, morphology and systematics; applied botany; economic botany; plant physiology; ecophysiology, microbiology (general, soil, food); toxicology of microorganisms.
Research fields: Investigation of biology and application of fodder galega, oil rape, beans, valerian, caraway, inoculation of leguminous; mycotoxins; plant ecophysiology.
Departament of HORTICULTURE
Phone: +370 37 752341 E-mail: ns@lzuu.lt Head of department: Assoc. prof. dr. Audronė Žebrauskienė
Subjects: Horticultire (pomology, small fruit culture, vegetable growing, floriculture, ornamental and rare plants), fruit, vegetable and plant product‘s storage and processing (food preparation technologies and food preservation), public health basics (basics of public health, social healthing, food science, food safety, human nutrition, organic food), recreation and rural tourism.
Research fields: Growth, development and productivity of plant species for hotrticulture (apple-tree, currant, actinidia, organic growing, asparagus, chicory, onion, pumpkin, jerusalem artichoke); human nutrition, quality of plant food products, creating of alternative plant food products, rural tourism.
Department of PLANT GROWING AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
Phone: +370 37 752336 E-mail: au@lzuu.lt Head of department: Assoc. prof. dr. Liuda Žilėnaitė
Subjects: Crop science; grassland; plant genetics and biotechnology; plant breeding and seed production; animal husbandry.
Research fields: Plant agro-biological potential; modelling of plant yield; field crop growing technology; green crop productivity; legumes (pea, soybean) and rape breeding; rape, flax biotechnology; fodder production technology; animal nutrition and quality of animal production.
Department of PLANT PROTECTION
Phone: +370 37 752265 E-mail: aa@lzuu.lt Head of department: Assoc. prof. dr. Sonata Kazlauskaitė
Subjects: Entomology; phytopathology; plant protection; beekeeping; invertebrate zoology; forest protection.
Research fields: Faunistic research in entomology (basically in Coleoptera); species composition of nematodes; racial structure of bee populiations; bee overwintering conditions; bee diseases; nectarity of plants; protection of agricultural plants against pests and diseases; forest protection against pests and diseases; successions of entomocomplexes in forests; fungi on cereal seeds; seed treatments.
Department of SOIL MANAGEMENT
Phone: +370 37 752229 E-mail: afze@lzuu.lt Head of department: Assoc. prof. dr. Darija Jodaugienė
Subjects: Soil tillage and environment; soil management; weed science; cultural weed control; organic farming; principles of seeding system; soil physics; land reclamation, agroecology.
Research fields: Organic and sustainable agriculture; agroecology, crop ecology, soil tillage and environment; weed ecology; weed control; crop rotation.
Department of Soil science and PLANT NUTRITION
Phone: +370 37 752212 E-mail: da@lzuu.lt Head of department: Assoc. prof. dr. Irena Pranckietienė
Subjects: Soil science and principles of geology; soil map of the world and its legend; plant nutrition systems; land resources information system; soil data base; soil classification; soil ecology.
Research fields: Soil classification; soil ecology; chemical and physical soil properties and methodology of their testing; fertilisation of arable crops; historiography of agronomy science in Lithuania.
Laboratory of AGROBIOTECHNOLOGY
Phone: +370 37 752264 E-mail: natalija.burbulis@lzuu.lt Head of laboratory: Assoc.prof.dr. Natalija Burbulis
Fields of activity: Rape seed and linseed breeding by biotechnology methods: tissue culture, anther culture, microspore culture, ovary culture; development of yellow-seeded Brassica napus L.; effect of different antropogenic factors for plant development; investigation of the influence of synthetic and biological growth regulators for plant development.
Laboratory of zootechnical and agronomical analyses “TEMPUS”
Phone: +370 37 752359 E-mail: gy@lzuu.lt Head of laboratory: Assoc. prof. dr. Sabina Mikulionienë
Fields of activity: Fodder, soil and food chemical analyses; consultations on the issues of forage composition, fodder digestibility in vitro and energetic value, fodder consumption and neto energy during lactation period, food quality.