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Syllabus for: PLSS 220 General Horticulture Fall Semester 2003 Click here for Laboratory Schedule This course is designed to acquaint students with the art, culture, and science of the various horticultural crops. It is hoped that this course will begin to develop the knowledge base that will provide a foundation for more advanced horticulture courses and to help the student to understand the growing and care of plants. Course goal: To learn factors in horticultural crop production from propagation through harvest and use. The goals and objectives of this course are as follows: 1. To learn the language of horticulture. 2. To learn the horticultural crop groupings and how their cultural requirements are similar and how they are different. 3. To learn the scientific principles of growing high quality horticultural plants. 4. To learn how to use this knowledge from 3 to solve problems encountered with producing high quality horticultural plants. 5. To begin to appreciate the art of horticulture. Exams will be designed to determine if objectives 1-5 are achieved. Please consider this when you study for this class. The grading of the course will be determined as follows: Grading
Points **Exams will be given during the laboratory periods. Grading scale: >89.99% = A Required textbook: Preece, J.E. and P.E. Read. 1993. The Biology of Horticulture. An Introductory Textbook. John Wiley and Sons, New York. 480 pp. WebCt URL: http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu:8900/public/PLSS220/index.htmlSee the handout titled: First-time Usage of WebCT for instructions on how to login. For this course, your initial User Name and password are both the same. They are the first initial of your first name followed by your last name (all letters must be in lower case). If you added the class late, or if I made a typo setting up your user name and/or password, please send me an e-mail message ( jpreece@siu.edu) and I will correct it. In the meanwhile, you can login using the word: guest and the password: guest (all letters must be lowercase).Date Subject Readings in Preece and Read August 18 Introduction Ch. 1, 2, and 3 20 Finish Introduction, Begin Genotype Ch. 4 22 Sexual Fertilization of Plants 25 Inheritance 27 Segregation, Cloning and Heterosis 29 Horticultural Practices Related to Natural Outcrossing September 1 No Class. University Holiday 3 Genetic Resistance to Pests 5 Introduction to Light Ch. 5 8 Chlorophyll, Carotenoids, and Etiolation 10 Sun leaves, Shade leaves, and Acclimatization 12 Pruning Plants for Light Interception, Phytochrome 15 Plant Response to Photoperiod 17 Photoperiodic Control of Flowering 19 Light Quality and Branching, Introduction to Temperature Ch. 6 22 Plant responses to increasing (or decreasing) temperature 24 Thermoperiodism (DIF) 26 The Greenhouse Effect 29 Sugar/Starch Conversions, Vernalization October 1 Air Drainage, Altitude, Soil Temperature 4 Leaf and Fruit Temperatures 6 Temperature Stress 8 Cold Hardiness 10 Cold Hardiness, Hardening-off 13 Introduction to Water Ch. 7 15 Water Movement in the Soil and Transplanting 17 Transpiration 20 Irrigating Plants 22 How to Water or Irrigate Plants 24 Water Stress 27 Heat Capacity of Water, Mineral Nutrients Ch. 9 29 CO2, Soil pH 31 Fertilizers November 3 How to Fertilize Plants 5 Fertilizing Plants 7 Forms of Fertilizer 10 Forms of Fertilizer 12 Composting 14 Composting 17 Soils and Hydroponics 19 Hydroponics 21 Cation Exchange Capacity, Mulches Ch. 10 24-28 Thanksgiving Vacation December 1 Potential Problems with Mulches 3 Organic Mulches 5 Organic and Inorganic Mulches 8-12 FINALS WEEK
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