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:

• Commercial Floral and Vegetable Crops
• Controlled Environment Agriculture
• Epigenetics
• Floriculture
• Genetics
• Grapes and Small Fruits
• Landscape Horticulture
• Plant Genetics and Breeding
• Plant Molecular Biology
• Plant Physiology
• Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress and Agricultural Biotechnology
• Pomology
• Postharvest and Molecular Biology
• Specialty Crop Production Systems
• Stress Physiology
• Sustainable Farming Systems
• Sustainable Horticultural Crop Production
• Turfgrass Science
• Weed Science

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Cale A. Bigelow
Bruce P. Bordelon
Ray A. Bressan
Michael N. Dana
Natalia Dudareva
Avtar Krishan Handa
Paul Michael Hasegawa
Peter M. Hirst
Jules Janick
Robert J. Joly
Cary A. Mitchell
D. Marshall Porterfield
Kashchandra G. Raghothama
David Rhodes
Robert W. Sovinski
Stephen C. Weller
Hazel Wetzstein
Jian-Kang Zhu

Associate Professor

Bernie L Fasla Dahl
Steve G. Hallett
Roberto G. Lopez
Michael V. Mickelbart
Kathryn S. Orvis
Aaron J. Patton

Assistant Professor

Brian Dilkes
Lori A. Hoagland
Hye-Ji Kim

Special Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Clinicial Engagement Assistant Professor

Elizabeth T. Maynard

Programs

• Horticulture, PHD

• Horticulture, MA
• Horticulture, 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 - Commerical Grape And Wine Production
• HORT 51300 - Nutrition Of Horticulture Crops
• HORT 54100 - Postharvest Technology Of Fruits And Vegetables
• HORT 54200 - Introduction To Agricultural Biotechnology For Educators
• HORT 55100 - Cellular And Molecular Plant Physiology
• 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

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