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Plant Science
Agricultural Sciences & Technology
2008-2009 California State University, Fresno General Catalog 139
OH 108. Woody Plant Materials (3)
Prerequisites: BIOL 10 or 11, OH 1. Sur-vey
of woody plant materials, including
identification, growth habits, and cultural
requirements. Emphasis on plants used in
the California landscape. (2 lecture, 3 lab
hours; field trips)
OH 109. Herbaceous Plant
Identification Materials (3)
Prerequisites: BIOL 10 or 11, OH 1. Survey
of herbaceous plant materials, including
identification, growth habits, and cultural
requirements. Emphasis on plants used in
California landscapes, botanical gardens,
and arboreta. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; 2
Saturday field trips)
OH 110. Turfgrass Production
and Management (3)
Prerequisites: BIOL 10 or 11, OH 1.
Production and maintenance of grass for
lawns, public parks, public institutions,
playgrounds, playing fields, golf courses,
bowling greens; identification of turfgrasses
and turfgrass seed. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours;
field trip) F odd
Plant Health (PLTH)
PLTH 1. Introduction to Plant Health (3)
Not open to students with credit in upper-division
PLTH courses. Origin, history, and
evaluation of protective measures (chemical,
biological, and cultural) for management of
insects, diseases, weeds, and rodents in the
field and around the home.
PLTH 102. Pesticides (3)
Prerequisite: CHEM 3B or 8. Modes of
action and effective application of insecti-cides,
herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides,
nematocides and plant growth regulators.
Emphasis on effective and safe use of ag-ricultural
chemicals by reading labels and
following laws/regulations. (2 lecture, 3
lab hours) F
PLTH 103. Economic Entomology (3)
Prerequisite: BIOL 10 or 12. Biology,
ecology, management and taxonomy of
economically important arthropods, with
special emphasis on agricultural ecosystems
in California. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) F
PLTH 104. Plant Nematology (3)
Prerequisites: PLTH 1 and either or BIOL
10 or 12. Biology, taxonomy, host-parasite
relationships, soil ecology, conventional
and innovative controls, plant diagnosis
and laboratory techniques with emphasis
on plant-parasitic species. (2 lecture, 3 lab
hours) (Formerly PLPR 104) F
PLANT 105. Food, Society,
and Environment (3)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth
Areas B. Linkages among food produc-tion
systems, human social behavior, and
environmental quality. Basic principles of
environmental and agricultural sciences as
applied to interrelationships among social
value systems, agricultural activities and
environmental resources. G.E. Integration
IB. FS
PLANT 107. Plant Propagation (3)
Prerequisite: BIOL 10 or 11; CHEM 3A.
Principles and practices of propagating
plants, sexual and asexual. Seeds, cuttings,
layering, grafting, budding, and tissue cul-ture.
Propagation media and rooting aids.
(2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips) S
PLANT 108. Micropropagation (3)
Prerequisites: BIOL 10 or 11; BIOL 161
or CHEM 150 or permission of instructor.
Principles of plant propagation by aseptic
cell and organ culture as a means of rapid
cloning, elimination of systemic plant dis-eases,
production of somatic hybrids, ploidy
change, and other genetic variants for use in
plant breeding. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) F
PLANT 110W. Dimensions
in Agriculture (3)
Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of the
ENGL 5B and 10 graduation requirement.
Current agricultural problems and develop-ments;
nature of agricultural industries in a
changing world. Interrelationships among
agriculture, government, labor, and the
public. Meets the upper-division writing
skills requirement for graduation. FS
PLANT 134. Microclimatology (3)
(See GEOG 114.)
PLANT 150. Crop Improvement (3)
Prerequisite: BIOL 10 or 11. Application
of genetic, cytological and environmen-tal
principles to improvement of plants;
heredity and variation in plants, effects
of environmental factors, biotechnology,
self- and cross-fertilization, principles and
results of selection and hybridization in
plant improvement. F
PLANT 170T. Topics in Plant Science
(1-4; max total 6 per discipline
if no topic repeated)
Prerequisite: junior standing. Selected topics
in plant science, agronomy, horticulture, and
other associated areas. Topics may require
lab hours. FS
PLTH 105. Weeds (3)
Prerequisites: BIOL 10 or 11; CHEM
3A, 3B, or 8. Vegetation management in
California. Identification of common weeds.
Fundamentals of preventive, cultural, bio-logical,
physical, and chemical weed control
methods. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) S
PLTH 106. Plant Pathology (3)
Prerequisite: BIOL 10 or 11. Study of the
causal agents, disease cycles, and control of
plant diseases. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) S
PLTH 107. Biological Control (3)
Prerequisite: PLTH 103. Study of the action
of parasites, predators, and pathogens on
the population dynamics of their host/prey
organisms; focus on arthropods, with addi-tional
emphasis on microorganisms, weeds,
nematodes, and vertebrates. (2 lecture, 3
lab hours) S
PLTH 108. Integrated Pest
Management (3)
Prerequisite: PLTH 103. Concepts and
principles of integrated pest management.
Insect and mite pest problems; sampling
techniques; biology and ecology of major
agricultural crop pests; integration of con-trol
measures for management of economic
pests. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) S
PLTH 109. Diagnosis and Control
of Plant Diseases (3)
Prerequisite: PLTH 106. Techniques for
diagnosis of specific diseases in California
and selection criteria for control strategies.
Students will practice diagnostic techniques
and select preventative, cultural, biological,
physical, and chemical disease control strate-gies
for major plant diseases. (2 lecture, 3
lab hours) F
Plant Science (PLANT)
PLANT 99. Introduction to Biometrics (3)
Prerequisite: ELM requirement met.
Introduction to experimental methods
and statistical procedures with particular
emphasis on applied biological systems.
Design of experiments; statistical analysis
and interpretation. S
PLANT 100. Aspects of Crop
Productivity (3)
Prerequisite: BIOL 10 or 11. Study of
the growth, development, and basic
physiological processes of cultivated crops.
Environmental influences on crop growth
and development processes and manage-ment
techniques to minimize stresses and
maximize crop yield and quality. (Formerly
PLANT 170T)
Object Description
| Title | 2008-09 General Catalog |
| Creator | California State University, Fresno |
| Format | PDF Document |
| Date of publication | 2008-05 |
| Subjects | California State University, Fresno. Curricula. Catalogs |
| Object type | Document |
| Location | Fresno, California |
| Language | eng |
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| Title | Page 139 |
| Full Text Search | Plant Science Agricultural Sciences & Technology 2008-2009 California State University, Fresno General Catalog 139 OH 108. Woody Plant Materials (3) Prerequisites: BIOL 10 or 11, OH 1. Sur-vey of woody plant materials, including identification, growth habits, and cultural requirements. Emphasis on plants used in the California landscape. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips) OH 109. Herbaceous Plant Identification Materials (3) Prerequisites: BIOL 10 or 11, OH 1. Survey of herbaceous plant materials, including identification, growth habits, and cultural requirements. Emphasis on plants used in California landscapes, botanical gardens, and arboreta. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; 2 Saturday field trips) OH 110. Turfgrass Production and Management (3) Prerequisites: BIOL 10 or 11, OH 1. Production and maintenance of grass for lawns, public parks, public institutions, playgrounds, playing fields, golf courses, bowling greens; identification of turfgrasses and turfgrass seed. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trip) F odd Plant Health (PLTH) PLTH 1. Introduction to Plant Health (3) Not open to students with credit in upper-division PLTH courses. Origin, history, and evaluation of protective measures (chemical, biological, and cultural) for management of insects, diseases, weeds, and rodents in the field and around the home. PLTH 102. Pesticides (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 3B or 8. Modes of action and effective application of insecti-cides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, nematocides and plant growth regulators. Emphasis on effective and safe use of ag-ricultural chemicals by reading labels and following laws/regulations. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) F PLTH 103. Economic Entomology (3) Prerequisite: BIOL 10 or 12. Biology, ecology, management and taxonomy of economically important arthropods, with special emphasis on agricultural ecosystems in California. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) F PLTH 104. Plant Nematology (3) Prerequisites: PLTH 1 and either or BIOL 10 or 12. Biology, taxonomy, host-parasite relationships, soil ecology, conventional and innovative controls, plant diagnosis and laboratory techniques with emphasis on plant-parasitic species. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly PLPR 104) F PLANT 105. Food, Society, and Environment (3) Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Areas B. Linkages among food produc-tion systems, human social behavior, and environmental quality. Basic principles of environmental and agricultural sciences as applied to interrelationships among social value systems, agricultural activities and environmental resources. G.E. Integration IB. FS PLANT 107. Plant Propagation (3) Prerequisite: BIOL 10 or 11; CHEM 3A. Principles and practices of propagating plants, sexual and asexual. Seeds, cuttings, layering, grafting, budding, and tissue cul-ture. Propagation media and rooting aids. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips) S PLANT 108. Micropropagation (3) Prerequisites: BIOL 10 or 11; BIOL 161 or CHEM 150 or permission of instructor. Principles of plant propagation by aseptic cell and organ culture as a means of rapid cloning, elimination of systemic plant dis-eases, production of somatic hybrids, ploidy change, and other genetic variants for use in plant breeding. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) F PLANT 110W. Dimensions in Agriculture (3) Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of the ENGL 5B and 10 graduation requirement. Current agricultural problems and develop-ments; nature of agricultural industries in a changing world. Interrelationships among agriculture, government, labor, and the public. Meets the upper-division writing skills requirement for graduation. FS PLANT 134. Microclimatology (3) (See GEOG 114.) PLANT 150. Crop Improvement (3) Prerequisite: BIOL 10 or 11. Application of genetic, cytological and environmen-tal principles to improvement of plants; heredity and variation in plants, effects of environmental factors, biotechnology, self- and cross-fertilization, principles and results of selection and hybridization in plant improvement. F PLANT 170T. Topics in Plant Science (1-4; max total 6 per discipline if no topic repeated) Prerequisite: junior standing. Selected topics in plant science, agronomy, horticulture, and other associated areas. Topics may require lab hours. FS PLTH 105. Weeds (3) Prerequisites: BIOL 10 or 11; CHEM 3A, 3B, or 8. Vegetation management in California. Identification of common weeds. Fundamentals of preventive, cultural, bio-logical, physical, and chemical weed control methods. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) S PLTH 106. Plant Pathology (3) Prerequisite: BIOL 10 or 11. Study of the causal agents, disease cycles, and control of plant diseases. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) S PLTH 107. Biological Control (3) Prerequisite: PLTH 103. Study of the action of parasites, predators, and pathogens on the population dynamics of their host/prey organisms; focus on arthropods, with addi-tional emphasis on microorganisms, weeds, nematodes, and vertebrates. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) S PLTH 108. Integrated Pest Management (3) Prerequisite: PLTH 103. Concepts and principles of integrated pest management. Insect and mite pest problems; sampling techniques; biology and ecology of major agricultural crop pests; integration of con-trol measures for management of economic pests. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) S PLTH 109. Diagnosis and Control of Plant Diseases (3) Prerequisite: PLTH 106. Techniques for diagnosis of specific diseases in California and selection criteria for control strategies. Students will practice diagnostic techniques and select preventative, cultural, biological, physical, and chemical disease control strate-gies for major plant diseases. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) F Plant Science (PLANT) PLANT 99. Introduction to Biometrics (3) Prerequisite: ELM requirement met. Introduction to experimental methods and statistical procedures with particular emphasis on applied biological systems. Design of experiments; statistical analysis and interpretation. S PLANT 100. Aspects of Crop Productivity (3) Prerequisite: BIOL 10 or 11. Study of the growth, development, and basic physiological processes of cultivated crops. Environmental influences on crop growth and development processes and manage-ment techniques to minimize stresses and maximize crop yield and quality. (Formerly PLANT 170T) |
