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Agronomy (AGRN)
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
AGRN 200 Introduction to Crop Science (3) Relation of plants, nutrients, environment, cultural practices to crop production. Pre: BOT 101 and CHEM 151. (Cross-listed as HORT 200)
AGRN 460 Cropping Systems (3) (2 Lec, 1 3-hr Lab) Schemes for managing sequences and combinations of crops and crop production activities. Ecosystem and social determinants. Multiple cropping. Analysis of alternative cropping systems. Pre: 200 or HORT 200, or consent.
AGRN 480 Tropical Forestry/Agroforestry (3) (2 Lec, 1 3-hr Lab) Distribution, species, productivity, nutrient cycling, hydrology, sustainability, modeling, design, and future of tree-based land-use systems. Pre: consent.
AGRN 603 Experimental Design (4) (3 Lec, 1 3-hr Lab) Design of experiments and variance analyses in biological and agricultural research. Pre: AREC 310 or ZOOL 631. Recommended: ZOOL 632. (Cross-listed as HORT 603)
AGRN 610 Crop Photosynthetic Productions (3) Photosynthetic pathways, leaf gas exchange, effects of environmental factors on photosynthesis, photosynthate partitioning, factors influencing plant dry matter accumulation. Pre: consent.
AGRN 660 Cropping Systems Analysis (3)
(2 Lec, 1 3-hr Lab) Advanced methods for evaluating and improving agronomic production systems: specialized empirical analysis (experimental design, indexes of performance) and systems simulation. Pre: 460 or consent.
AGRN 680 Forest/Agroforest Ecosystem Analysis (3) Quantitative analysis of ecosystem processes in tropical forests and agroforestry systems. Productivity, nutrient cycling, hydrology, and interactions of processes will be examined using recent literature and computer models. Pre: consent.
AGRN 710 Mineral Nutrition of Tropical Crops (3) Mineral nutrition of plants in relation to plant metabolism, mechanisms of ion uptake, long-distance transport of solutes, and interactions at the root-soil interface. Special emphasis on problems associated with tropical crops. Pre: BOT 470 and SOIL 450. (Cross-listed as HORT 710)
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