Applicants are encouraged to explore, study, and research opportunities by contacting faculty who may be prospective advisers.
This program provides opportunities for students interested in Horticulture to become a professional leader and an independent scholar. Faculty in this program are competent to prepare candidates in the subfields of Horticulture including
- crop production and marketing
- integrated crop management
- plant genetics and breeding
- horticultural plant physiology
- postharvest physiology
- plant molecular biology and biotechnology, and
- horticultural ecology.