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Apr 24, 2024
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PBIO 3050 - Plant Propagation
Principles and practices in sexual and asexual propagation of selected plants; timing, manner, and material utilized for cuttage, budding, grafting, layerage and tissue culture; methods of seed handling as affected by time, temperature, and media selection; study of types, construction, and management of various propagation and growing structures and equipment used; identification of selected plants of horticultural and/or agricultural importance using proper scientific nomenclature. Includes one Saturday field trip.
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Be able to properly select the appropriate method of asexual propagation a plant will respond to.
- Be able to understand proper techniques and methods of seed propagation and growth.
- Demonstrate ability to apply techniques learned in class to various other lab class exercises.
- To be able to correctly identify a minimum of 100 (or more) selected plants by scientific name.
- To understand the purposes of various propagation facilities and equipment used.
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