• PLSC 494: Profess Horticul Communication

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Communication for public horticulturists through written, oral, and visual media. Emphasis on communication skills using proper writing techniques and grammar for print media, brochure design using desktop publishing, slide show development, oral presentations, and video use for educational and informational presentations in ornamental horticulture. Registration Restriction(s): Minimum student level ― senior.
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• PLSC 499: Undergrad Research Participatn

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Experience in research projects under supervision of staff members. Student should make arrangements for research project with instructor prior to enrollment.Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 12 hours.Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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• PLSC 501: Spec Top: Plant Sciences

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Topics to be assigned. Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
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• PLSC 503: Non-Thesis Project

  1.00 - 2.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Library, field, or laboratory project under supervision of faculty member. Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 4 hours.Comment(s): For students in non-thesis option only.
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• PLSC 504: Seminar

  1.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Presentations and discussion of topics. Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
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• PLSC 511: Seed Biology and Physiology

  1.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Discussion and readings related to the seed as a biological system: its formation, development, dormancy, germination and viability.Recommended Background: Course work in plant physiology.
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• PLSC 515: Agroecology

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Application of ecological concepts to management of horticultural and agronomic cropping systems. Examination of structure and function of agroecosystems, system-level interactions among agroecosystem components, and assessment of sustainability of cropping systems from environmental, economic, and social perspectives. Focus on organic and other alternative cropping systems.Contact hour distribution: 2 hour lecture; 1 2-hour lab. Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both 415 and 515.
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• PLSC 525: Research Ethics/Life Sciences

  1.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  How good research conduct and knowing the rules of science can enable success in life science research. Bioethics is not a focus. Cross-listed: (Same as Animal Science 525 and Comparative and Experimental Medicine 525.)Contact Hour Distribution: 1 hour.
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• PLSC 530: Integrated Pest Management

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Principles and application of biological, cultural, genetic, behavioral, and chemical methods of control to maintain pest populations below economic threshold levels. Cross-listed: (See Entomology and Plant Pathology 530.) Recommended Background: Entomology and Plant Pathology 321 or consent of instructor.
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• PLSC 532: Environ Plant Ecophysiology

  3.00 Credits

  The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

  
  Physiological and ecological principles of plants and the relation of those principles to plant responses to the environment. Water relations, gas exchange, stress physiology, seed biology, plant competition, plant defense. Recommended Background: Plant physiology course.
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