Internships supervised by a member of the faculty. Maximum of 12 units permitted in the Vegetable Crops 92-192 series. Voluntary tutoring for upper division students who desire teaching experience. Under supervision students may prepare laboratory materials, experiments, and autotutorial modules, conduct discussions and demonstrations, and be involved in testing. May be repeated up to a total of 6 units.
Laboratories stress concepts and research procedures.
Offered in alternate years. Ecological principles and relationships as applied to agriculture. Integration of ecological approaches into agricultural research to develop environmentally sound management practices. Topics include crop autecology, biotic interactions among crops and pests, and crops systems ecology. Integration of modern biotechnology and classical plant breeding including molecular markers, genetic mapping, gene identification, transformation, tissue culture, incompatibility mechanisms, male sterility, hybrid production, disease resistance, and novel plant products.