HOS6545 Advanced Citraculture I will be offered in Spring 2014!

HOS6545 Advanced Citraculture I

 

Spring 2014 – 3 credits

Section 171B

Wednesdays 7 - 9^th Periods

Prerequisite: FRC 3212 and 4223 or equivalent.   
Students that haven’t taken the above courses  and would like to enroll in the course should contact the instructor.
The syllabus for this course is attached.

 

Instructor: Craig Brodersen

Department: HOS / IFAS – CREC
Office: #1, Building 2079 CREC
Phone: 863-956-8846
Email: Brodersen@ufl.edu
Office Hours: by appointment
Lecture Location/Time: Wednesdays, 2-5PM

 

 

Course description: 3 credits. This course is designed to provide an overview of the physiological processes essential to biomass and fruit production in citrus and how the biotic and abiotic environment facilitates or impedes productivity. We will address many of these issues by focusing on specific problems growers face on daily and seasonal cycles and how research has led to new management or breeding practices to overcome those problems. 

 

This course will be taught at the UF Citrus Research & Education Center in Lake Alfred, FL. The course can be taken via Polycom video conferencing with the permission of the instructor. Each online distance learning program has a process for, and will make every attempt to resolve, student complaints within its academic and administrative departments at the program level. See http://distance.ufl.edu/student-complaints for more details.

 

Class meetings will be a combination of lectures by Dr. Brodersen and other citrus experts at CREC and student led discussion sessions aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the pertinent scientific literature from the rich history of citrus research. Each meeting we will discuss 2 – 4 papers related to that week’s topic. Starting 2/26/13 (or earlier depending on course enrollment) individual students or groups will lead the discussion are responsible for selecting the papers (to be approved one week in advance).