Online Courses Handbook 2003

303238 (v.2) Advanced Horticulture Principles 202

Area:	Muresk Institute
Contact Hours:	6.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Growth development, differentiation in horticultural crops. Photosynthesis constraints, secondary products of metabolism, water relations, mineral uptake regulation of plant growth, 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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