2016-2017 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (Graduate)
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Website URL:
https://ag.purdue.edu/hla/Hort/Pages/HLAGradProgram.aspx
Department/School Head:
Hazel Y. Wetzstein
Admission Requirements:
Master’s Degree Program Basic Requirements
- Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average: 3.0 or equivalent required
- Graduate Record Examination (GRE): Required – no minimum score has been set
Doctoral Degree Program Basic Requirements
- Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
3.0 or equivalent required
- Master’s Degree Completion:
Desired, but not required.
- Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
Required – no minimum score set
Academic Programs:
Master’s and Ph.D. Programs
The Horticulture graduate program offers the thesis-based degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and Master of Science (M.S.), as well as a non-thesis degree, Master of Agriculture (M.Agr.).
Concentrations (Areas of Study):
Faculty in the program conduct extramurally-funded research on such topics as:
- Biotechnology
- Controlled enviroment agriculture
- Plant breeding & genome engineering
- Plant epigenetics
- Plant interactions with soil microbial communities
- Plant mineral nutrition
- Plant secondary metabolism
- Postharvest physiology
- Regulation of plant architecture and reproduction
- Specialty crop production
- Stress tolerance in crop plants
- Sustainable biofuel production
- Turf grass science
- Weed science & technology
Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:
Professor
Cale A. Bigelow
Bruce P. Bordelon
Ray A. Bressan
Michael N. Dana
Natalia Dudareva
Steve G. Hallett
Avtar K. Handa
P. Michael Hasegawa
Peter M. Hirst
Jules Janick
Robert J. Joly
Cary A. Mitchell
Kashchandra G. Raghothama
David Rhodes
Robert W. Sovinski
Stephen C. Weller
Hazel Wetzstein
Jian-Kang Zhu
Associate Professor
Bernie L. Dahl
Michael V. Mickelbart
Kathryn S. Orvis
Aaron J. Patton
Assistant Professor
Lori A. Hoagland
Hye-Ji Kim
Josh Widhalm
Clinical Assistant Professor
Wenjing Guan
Elizabeth Maynard
ProgramsDoctoralMaster’sCoursesHorticulture
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