305317 (v.2) Advanced Horticulture Principles 502

Area:	Department of Agribusiness and Wine Science
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	5.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	Growth development and differentiation in horticultural crops. Photosynthesis constraints, secondary products of metabolism, water relations, mineral uptake regulation of plant growth and growth regulators. Physiology of bud dormancy. Flowering, pollination, fertilisation, fruit set, abscission, growth and development. Self-incompatibility and parthenocarpy. Apical dominance and tree canopy management. Stress physiology and physiological disorders pre and post-harvest of horticultural crops. Principles and practice of conventional and in-vitro propagation.
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Field of Education:	050100 Agriculture (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

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