Plant Production
Student must complete 36 credit hours
Speciality Requirements Student must complete 27 credit hours
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequests |
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| 494501 | Experimental Design & Analysis | 3 |
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| This course looks at the principles and methods of experimental design and statistical analysis. It introduces students to completely randomised design, factorial experiments, latin square, split -plot design, correlation and regression. | |||
| 494502 | Advanced Plant Physiology | 3 |
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| This course looks at the growth and productivity of major vegetable and agronomic crops as related to plant physiological processes and environmental parameters, through manipulation of crop growth for enhanced production, growth analysis, physiological responses of plants to environmental stresses (water, temperature, nutrient, salt). It offers a critical review of related literature. | |||
| 494503 | Advanced Fruit Production | 3 |
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| This course consists of a study of various physiological aspects of growth and production of vegetable crops which include plant-water relationships, plant nutrition, seed dormancy and germination, production of transplants, flowering, fruiting, harvesting, handling and storage. The course also includes a critical review of related literature | |||
| 494507 | Advanced Plant Breeding | 3 |
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| This course consists of a study of modern methods and techniques in production and development of new cultivars, principles of hybrid cultivars. This includes the utilisation of wild plants in breeding programs and application of genetic engineering in plant breeding. | |||
| 494512 | Agri-business Enterprise Management | 3 |
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| 494513 | Field Research Technique | 3 |
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| 494525 | Agri-business Marketing | 3 |
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| 494599 | Thesis | 6 |
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| In this course the graduate student must pass a qualifying examination (See | |||
Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 9 credit hours
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequests |
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| 494551 | Plant Tissue Culture | 3 |
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| This course consists of studying the fundamental methods of plant cell, tissue and organ culture, media and basic plant reagents. It also looks at the application of tissue culture in plants breeding and genetic engineering. | |||
| 494552 | Post Harvest Technology & Physiology | 3 |
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| This course looks at the post harvest biochemical changes in fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Topics include the physical and physiological basis for handling and storage practices, perishable organ ontogeny, physiological disorders, the post harvest environment requirements including, refrigerated storage and chemical treatments. | |||
| 494553 | Pests of Crops | 3 |
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| This course looks at the dynamic nature and control of major pests of fruit and vegetable crops and ornamental plants in Palestine. The course focuses on symptoms, economic damage, favourable conditions for distribution of these pests and their control. | |||
| 494554 | Protected Agriculture Management | 3 |
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| This course examines the methods and materials used in constructions in protected agriculture (greenhouses, plastic houses and others). It looks at the environmental conditions in these constructions, the management of these constructions, site selection, design, construction, control of environmental conditions including lighting, heating, cooling, relative humidity, watering, fertilisation, carbon dioxide Irrigation, the growing media, diagnosis and the control of problems in greenhouses. | |||
| 494555 | Computer Applications in Agriculture | 3 |
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| This course covers topics such as the modelling of plant growth, plant response to environmental stress and the management of horticultural plant growth. | |||
| 494556 | Advanced Floriculture | 3 |
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| This course looks at the physiological basis for flowering in major flowers, pot plants, and bulbous plants. It looks at plant and floral morphology, genetic information related to flowering juvenility, plant age, floral initiation, induction, development, hormonal aspects of flowering, the effect of light, photoperiod, temperature, nutrition, growth regulators on flowering and flower abnormalities | |||
| 494557 | Medicinal and Aromatic Plants | 3 |
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| This course looks at the importance of medicinal and aromatic plants, the proper environment, classification, planting of the wild species, methods of extracting the active materials and the importance of medicinal plants in Palestine. | |||
| 494558 | Plant Biotechnology | 3 |
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| This course looks at the fundamental aspects of techniques for DNA cloning, including gene engineering and introduction into host cells, isolation and detection of specific DNA sequencing and techniques to engineer domestic plants to improve their productivity and adaptability to the environment. | |||
| 494559 | Advanced Plant Biochemistry | 3 |
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| This course studies the fundamental topics of plant chemistry including, cell walls, photosynthesis, respiration, carbohydrate biosynthesis, lipid metabolisms, Nitrogen fixation Synthesis nucleic acid and protein synthesis, chlorophyll and other alkaloids. | |||