3 Principles of plant disease control by exclusion, eradication and resistance. Plant protection with emphasis on fungicides, bacteriocides, and nematocides and their use. PLSC 414 Plant Cell and Tissue Culture 4 Principles of culturing plants in vitro. Topics for both lecture and laboratory include cell suspensions, another culture, embryo rescue, micropropagation and regeneration via organogenesis and embryogenesis. Greenhouse Management 4 Greenhouse structures, environmental control, cultural techniques and general management practices in greenhouse operations.
Laboratory exercises supplement lecture material.
PLSC201 and PLSC204. The extraction from higher plants of enzymes and other macromolecules, and assay by chemical tests. Pigment extraction, organelle separation, ion uptake, protein manipulation using centrifuge, spectrophotometer, chromatography and electrophoresis. PLSC 422 Plant Propagation 3 Practical and physiological aspects of the progagation of economic plants including both sexual and asexual methods. PLSC 429 Introductory Mycology 4 A survey of the structure, classification and possible relationship of major groups of fungi with stress on representative organisms and a working knowledge of terminology.