Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (Graduate)

Website URL:

https://ag.purdue.edu/hla/Hort/Pages/HLAGradProgram.aspx

Department/School Head:

Interim: Aaron Patton

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

Welcome to the Horticulture graduate program in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Purdue University.  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.).  Reflecting the research interests of our faculty, graduate students in the Horticulture graduate program have projects that explore fundamental concepts of plant biology, applied aspects of horticulture, or that integrate basic plant science with field and contained environment studies.  The goal of the Horticulture Graduate Program is to prepare students for professional careers in basic and applied plant science with an emphasis on the improvement of food, fiber, fuel, and ornamental crops.

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

Faculty in the program conduct extramurally-funded research on such topics as:

• Biotechnology
• Controlled environment 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
• 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
Peter M. Hirst
Jules Janick
Cary A. Mitchell
Aaron J. Patton
Kashchandra G. Raghothama
Paul Siciliano
Robert W. Sovinski
Jian-Kang Zhu

Associate Professor

​David Barbarash
Lori A. Hoagland
Kathryn S. Orvis
Sean Rotar
 

Assistant Professor

Hye-Ji Kim
Ying Li
Stephen Meyers
Krishna Nemali
Aaron Thompson
Ariana Torres
Kranthi Varala
Josh Widhalm

Clinical Assistant Professor

Wenjing Guan
Elizabeth Maynard
 

Programs

• Horticulture, PHD

• Horticulture, MS
• Horticulture, Non-Thesis MS

Courses

• HORT 50100 - Scanning Electron Microscopy: Principles
• HORT 50200 - Scanning Electron Microscopy: Application
• HORT 50300 - Transmission Electron Microscopy: Principles
• HORT 50400 - Transmission Electron Microscopy: Application
• HORT 50600 - Commercial Grape And Wine Production
• HORT 51300 - Nutrition Of Horticulture Crops
• HORT 52500 - The Plant Microbiome
• HORT 53000 - Introduction To Computing For Biologists
• HORT 53100 - Applied Plant Genomics
• HORT 54100 - Postharvest Technology Of Fruits And Vegetables
• HORT 55100 - Plant Responses To The Environment
• HORT 55300 - Plant Growth And Development
• HORT 59000 - Special Studies In Horticulture
• HORT 60100 - Planning And Presenting Plant Science Research
• HORT 60200 - Horticulture Research Seminar
• HORT 60300 - Grants And Grantsmanship
• HORT 64000 - Metabolic Plant Physiology
• HORT 69500 - Horticulture Seminar
• HORT 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• HORT 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

• LA 50100 - Research Methods For Design Applications
• LA 58100 - Special Topics In Landscape Architecture
• LA 58200 - Contemporary Issues - Landscape Architecture