Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (Graduate)

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Department/School Head:

Linda Prokopy

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

Welcome to the Horticulture and Landscape Architecture graduate program in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Purdue University. The HLA graduate program offers the thesis-based degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and Master of Science (M.S.), Master of Science in Landscape Systems and Design (M.S.). Reflecting the research interests of our faculty, graduate students in the HLA graduate program have projects that explore fundamental concepts of plant biology, applied aspects of horticulture and landscape architecture, or that integrate basic plant science with field and contained environment studies. The goal of the HLA Graduate Program is to prepare students for professional careers in landscape design, basic and applied plant science and their economics and marketing with an emphasis on the improvement of food, fiber, fuel, ornamental crops, horticultural economics/marketing, and other related topics.

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

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

• Biotechnology
• Controlled environment agriculture
• Horticultural Economics and Marketing
• Horticulture Social Sciences
• Landscape Systems and Design
• 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
Ray A. Bressan
Michael N. Dana
Natalia Dudareva
Steve G. Hallett
Avtar K. Handa
Peter M. Hirst
Lori Hoagland
Cary A. Mitchell
Kathryn S. Orvis
Aaron J. Patton
Linda Prokopy
Kashchandra G. Raghothama
Paul Siciliano

Associate Professor

​David Barbarash
Celina Gomez
Ying Li
Krishna Nemali
Sean Rotar
Aaron Thompson
Ariana Torres
Josh Widhalm

Assistant Professor

Moriah Bilenky
Yiwei Huang
Stephen Meyers
Kranthi Varala

Clinical Professor

Elizabeth Maynard

Clinical Associate Professor

Wenjing Guan
 

Programs

• Horticulture, PHD

• Horticulture, MS
• Landscape Systems and Design, MS (Graduate)

Courses

• 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 57200 - Stakeholder Involvement In Landscape Management
• 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