Students may develop programs with emphasis on crop production systems, physiology, or crop breeding and genetics. The Ph.D.-Plant Science program is a degree jointly administered by the Horticulture Department and the Department of Plant Pathology.
Students typically emphasize either crop physiology or genetics.
The department supports some students on either graduate research or teaching assistantships. Assistantships carry benefits and full graduate tuition waivers. Original investigations on assigned problems in horticulture. May be repeated. Lecture 2 hours, laboratory 2 hours per week.