Online Courses Handbook 2003

305317 (v.1) Advanced Horticulture Principles 502

Area:	Muresk Institute of Agriculture
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
Prerequisite(s):	303226 (v.2) Horticulture Plant and Soil Resources 101 or any previous version AND 303231 (v.2) Horticultural Plant and Soil Systems 102 or any previous version
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.