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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.
HOS 5515C: Greenhouse and Nursery Operations (3) Prereq:
for graduate students needing introduction to the principles of
planning, organizing, and managing production operations. Not open
to students who have taken ORH 3254. Principles involved in
managing nurseries. Interaction among media components,
irrigation, and nutrition. Weekend field trips may be required.
HOS 5516C: Advanced Production of Greenhouse and Nursery
Crops (3) Prereq: ORH 3254 or HOS 5515C. Decisions in
scheduling crops and developing cultural plans. Test for Pesticide
Applicators License required. Practical aspects of managing nursery
workers. Maintenance of crops outside assigned laboratory and one
weekend field trip required.
HOS 5555: Tropical Fruit Production and Research in Florida
(3) 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 evennumbered
years in summer.
HOS 5565: Advances in Vegetable Production Technology (3)
Survey of scientific knowledge related to production of vegetable
crops. Offered odd-numbered years in spring.
HOS 5616: Agricultural Meteorology (2) Causes and effects on
agriculture of droughts, floods, freezes, heat waves, monsoons,
hurricanes, thunderstorms, El Nino, and other weather phenomena.
Offered even-numbered years in fall.
HOS 5711: Phytochemicals in food & health(3) Prereq: BCH
4024 or equivalent or consent of instructor. 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.
HOS 6201: Breeding Perennial Cultivars (3) Prereq: AGR 3303.
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.
HOS 6311: Seed Physiology (3) Prereq: BOT 3503. Examines
dormancy, germination, growth, and development of seeds and the
life processes involved; methods of handling and processing.
Offered even-numbered years in spring.
HOS 6331: Postharvest Biology(3) Prereq: BOT 3503 and 5505C
or equivalents. 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.
HOS 6345: Environmental Physiology (4) Prereq: BOT 3503 or
consent of instructor. Physiology from molecular to whole-plant
level. The basis for responses to environmental factors such as