Landscape contracting students can emphasize landscape design and construction, plant materials and maintenance, soils, turfgrass, diseases, insect control and business. Minors available in turf management, environmental science, food science, agribusiness, pest management, and other areas. Research areas include genetics and breeding of fruit and vegetable crops, physiology and culture of fruit, vegetable and ornamental crops, and tissue culture. Includes fields of ornamental horticulture, landscape horticulture, floriculture, nursery management, urban forestry and plant bio technology. Research programs in plant improvement, production systems, post harvest biology and technology and fruit and nut research.
Emphasis is on tropical horticultural crops.
Research includes areas of physiology, culture and management, breeding, genetic engineering, tissue culture, and weed control. Options include business concentration, design concentration, and science concentration. Areas of emphasis include floriculture, fruit and vegetable production, landscape design, nursery crop production and turf grass management. Lightspan Inc. All rights reserved.