Horticulture Crop Physiology Course Information Sheet

This course is offered every Spring semester by LSU, and is designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of physiology of horticultural plants, including water relations, respiration, photosynthesis, and growth and development.

Expected Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:
1) Understand water relations, ion transport, transport in the phloem source, and mineral nutrition; provide an understanding of crop response for enhancing problem solving and optimizing crop production.
2) Understand the repsiratory pathways and photosynthetic processes in relation to crop yield and the use of plant growth regulators, herbicides, and environmental factors affecting these processes.
3) Apply knowledge of plant growth and development that pertains to the production and scheduling of agricultural crops.

The campus coordinator for Louisiana State University is Sandra Stevenson (sstevenson@agcenter.lsu.edu) and the course management system is Moodle.