HRT 204: Plant Propagation and Use
Course Code: HRT 204
Credits and Offerings
- 3 credits (2 lecture and 2 lab hours every week)
- Spring Semester every year
Course objectives
- Provide a theoretical and practical understanding of asexual and sexual propagation techniques, crop production systems, and plant use.
- Introduction to plant identification, genetic variation, selection, and breeding.
- Hands-on experience in propagation techniques such as rooting of cuttings, micropropagation, grafting, layering, seed germination, and pruning practices.
Topics
- Genetic variation and selection
- Rooted cuttings
- Micropropagation
- Grafting
- Layering and underground structures
- Seed collection, quality, and storage
- Seed germination
- Plant production systems
- Introduction to plant ID
- Plant use
Activities
- Rooting of herbaceous and woody cuttings
- Priming and pregermination of seeds
- Seed moisture effects
- Air layering
- Micropropagation/Tissue culture
- Scarification and stratification of seeds
- Oral presentation
- Plant ID
- Pruning practices