- HORT 4025 (Horticultural Crop Improvement)
- Spring semester
- 2 credits
- Meets Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:25 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
- Instructor: Phillip D. Griffiths
pdg8@cornell.edu
The class provides insight and exposure to the unique challenges associated with the improvement of horticultural crops and is intended for undergraduate students majoring in Plant Sciences, graduate students in the Graduate Field of Horticulture and those in other disciplines with an interest in horticulture.
Areas covered focus on real-world issues addressing changes in production environments, aesthetics, markets, postharvest quality and consumer demands and how they impact marketable yield.
Horticultural crops have diverse challenges from the development of seedless crops and the selection and propagation of clonal genotypes to high quality expectations, year-round consistency, consumer acceptance and targeting of new controlled environment production.
There are no prerequisites, but prior classes in introductory horticulture and genetics are recommended.