ALS 5932 Special Topics 1-4 Credits, Max 6 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Special Topics
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HOS 5085C Principles of Postharvest Horticulture 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Biological principles involved in harvesting, grading, packaging, transportation, and marketing horticultural crops, and their effects on quality maintenance. Offered even-numbered years in fall.
HOS 5242 Genetics & Breeding of Vegetable Crops 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Traditional and molecular breeding methods for vegetable crops and the influence of scientific research, government policies, and consumer preferences on vegetable crop improvement.
Prerequisite: AGR 3303 or equivalent.
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HOS 5330 Postharvest Technologies for Horticultural Crops 2 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Intensive study of current technologies and procedures for harvesting and handling fresh fruit, vegetable, and ornamental crops grown in Florida. Requires field trip during spring break. Offered in spring.
Prerequisite: HOS 5085C suggested. Open to graduate students and to upper-division undergraduate students with consent of instructor.
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HOS 5505 Getting Published Horticulture 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Presents techniques for writing journal manuscripts to submit to horticulture, plant related, and agricultural journals. Topics covered include selecting a journal, writing the introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion as well as how to present data in addition to responding to rejection letters, manuscript revisions, and providing constructive reviews.
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HOS 5555 Tropical Fruit Production and Research in Florida 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
A comprehensive study at the Tropical Research and Education Center at Homestead and field locations in South Florida. (Students will be in residence for 4 weeks at the Center.) Offered even-numbered years in summer.
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HOS 5711 Phytochemicals in Food & Health 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
This course examines phytochemicals in fruits and vegetables including their distribution, roles in human health promotion, biosynthesis and degradation, enzymes, genes and case studies of crop breeding and engineering.
Prerequisite: BCH 4024 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
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HOS 6201 Breeding Perennial Cultivars 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Methods of breeding perennial fruit and ornamental cultivars using mutations, cell and tissue culture, polyploidy, recurrent selection, and wide hybridization. Conservation and domestication of wild plants. Offered odd-numbered years in fall.
Prerequisite: AGR 3303.
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HOS 6236 Molecular Marker Assisted Plant Breeding 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Providing an overview of terminology, methodology, and applied examples of utilizing molecular markers in a plant breeding program.
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HOS 6307 Horticultural Physiology 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Covers basic plant physiology concepts in fruit and vegetable crops emphasizing horticultural applications. Topics include water uptake and transport, ion uptake, photosynthesis, respiration, and source-sink relations.
Prerequisite: Graduate status.
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HOS 6331 Postharvest Biology 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Physiological, biochemical, and molecular aspects of senescence and ripening of harvested fruit, vegetative, and floral organs with attention to the storage and quality maintenance of harvested plant organs.
Prerequisite: BOT 3503 and BOT 5505C or equivalents.
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HOS 6345 Environmental Physiology 4 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Physiology from molecular to whole-plant level. The basis for responses to environmental factors such as light, temperature, water, atmosphere, and stress extremes. Offered even-numbered years in fall.
Prerequisite: BOT 3503 or consent of instructor.
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HOS 6355 Root and Rhizosphere Ecology 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
The course provides a complete view of the rhizosphere and its unique functioning that implies numerous, strong and complex interactions between plant roots, soil constituents and microorganisms.
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HOS 6412 Nutrition of Horticultural Crops 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Physiological, biochemical and environmental factors influencing nutritional status of horticultural plants and the resulting effects on growth, yield, and quality. Offered odd-numbered years in spring.
Prerequisite: BOT 3503 and HOS 4304 or equivalent.
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HOS 6545 Advanced Citriculture I 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Regulation of citrus vegetative growth including climactic, physiological, and cultural factors. Offered odd-numbered years in the fall at Lake Alfred CREC.
Prerequisite: FRC 3212 and 4223 or equivalent.
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HOS 6905 Problems in Horticultural Science 1-4 Credits, Max 8 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Independent study.
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HOS 6910 Supervised Research 1-5 Credits, Max 5 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Supervised Research
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HOS 6931 Horticultural Science Seminar 1 Credit, Max 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Oral presentation of material in one of the following areas: literature review, related to student's research; research results; or published paper, of relevance to horticulture. Subject matter determined by instructor. Offered in spring.
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HOS 6932 Special Topics 1-4 Credits, Max 8 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Study of contemporary research in horticultural science.
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HOS 6934 Professional Seminar Preparation 1 Credit
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Preparation and oral presentation of proposal and research seminars emphasizing presentation design and mechanics.
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HOS 6940 Supervised Teaching 1-5 Credits, Max 5 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Supervised Teaching
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HOS 6941 Practicum in Horticultural Science 2-4 Credits, Max 8 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Supervised and individual work in professional areas of horticulture.
Prerequisite: admission is limited to graduate students majoring in horticultural science.
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HOS 6971 Research for Master's Thesis 1-15 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Research for Master's Thesis
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HOS 7979 Advanced Research 1-12 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Research for doctoral students before admission to candidacy. Designed for students with a master's degree in the field of study or for students who have been accepted for a doctoral program. Not appropriate for students who have been admitted to candidacy.
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HOS 7980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation 1-15 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Research for Doctoral Dissertation
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PCB 5065 Advanced Genetics 4 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Examines genetic principles including gene and gene function; recombination and linkage; molecular markers, multipoint linkage analysis, and positional cloning; and quantitative, population, developmental, and non-Medalian genetics. Offered in fall term.
Prerequisite: AGR 3303 or PCB 3063 and BCH 4024 or BCH 5045. For graduate students in any life science discipline.
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PCB 5530 Plant Molecular Biology and Genomics 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Integrated overview of the fundamental mechanisms enabling plant growth, development, and function, and approaches to study these at molecular level. Topics include replication, repair, transcription, translation, cell cycle, transformation, gene tagging, structural genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. Offered in fall term.
Prerequisite: undergraduate molecular biology or biochemistry.
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PCB 6528 Plant Cell and Developmental Biology 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Cellular and developmental biology of plants. Lecture format with frequent discussion of recent papers. Topics include signal transduction, organelles, protein trafficking, and developmental mechanisms. Offered in spring term.
Prerequisite: PCB 5530 and PCB 5065 or equivalent.
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PCB 6910 Supervised Research 1-5 Credits, Max 5 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Supervised Research
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PCB 6937 Special Topics in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology 1-4 Credits, Max 8 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Contemporary research.
Prerequisite: graduate course work in genetics, biochemistry, or molecular biology areas.
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PCB 6971 Research for Master's Thesis 1-15 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Research for Master's Thesis
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PCB 7922 Journal Colloquy in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology 1 Credit, Max 8 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Critical discussion and presentation of recent journal articles in the area of plant molecular and cellular biology.
Prerequisite: Required for PCMB majors.
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PCB 7979 Advanced Research 1-12 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Research for doctoral students before admission to candidacy. Designed for students with a master's degree in the field of study or for students who have been accepted for a doctoral program. Not appropriate for students who have been admitted to candidacy.
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PCB 7980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation 1-15 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Research for Doctoral Dissertation
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PLS 7979 Advanced Research 1-12 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Research for doctoral students before admission to candidacy. Designed for students with a master's degree in the field of study or for students who have been accepted for a doctoral program. Not appropriate for students who have been admitted to candidacy.
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PLS 7980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation 1-15 Credits
Grading Scheme: S/U
Research for Doctoral Dissertation.
Prerequisite: Student must be admitted to candidacy.
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WDS 6005 Weed Management for Organic and Sustainable Cropping Systems 3 Credits
Grading Scheme: Letter Grade
Ecological principles can be applied in agroecosystems to manage weeds sustainably. Alternative weed management approaches that are less dependent on herbicides and utilize ecological processes detrimental to weeds and their propagules will be emphasized. Students will learn actively by critically analyzing pertinent literature and participating in discussions of supplemental reading.
Prerequisite: HOS 3020C or ALS 3153.