Teaching Assistant:
Aparna Gazula

Meets:
Tuesday 2nd period (8:30 to 9:20am), and Thursday 2 and 3rd periods (8:30 to10:25am), Room 2318, Fifield Hall

Class Format:
This course consists of classroom lectures, invited lectures, labs, group activities, individual assignments and field trips

Course description:
Study and discussion of the physiological, biochemical and environmental factors that affect the nutritional status and the productivity of horticultural crops, and strategies for reducing the environmental impact of crop production

Objectives:
To present and discuss the basics concepts of plant nutrition (including plant nutritional requirement, nutrient absorption and translocation, nutrient interactions, diagnosis of plant nutritional status, and environmental impacts of fertilization and irrigation practices), to learn how to use these basic concepts in field diagnostic, and to understand how fertilization practices affect nutrient cycling.

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