Plant Science
AGRI 200. Biometrics in Agriculture
Prerequisites: PLANT 99, AGBS 71, or MATH 101, or permission of instructor. Advanced concepts in the design of agricultural experiments. Emphasis is placed on the selection of appropriate designs to meet the objectives of well-planned experiments. Relative merits of various designs and topics in analysis, interpretation, and regression are covered.
Units: 3
AGRI 201. Agricultural Laboratory Techniques
Prerequisite: One of the following courses: BIOL 161; CHEM 105, CHEM 129A, CHEM 151; FSC 115. Agricultural problem solving through the application of advances in laboratory technology, crop management, foods, nutrition, soil and water quality. Theory and practice operation of scientific instruments and techniques are taught. Student defined project and report required. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
Units: 3
MEAG 1. Introduction to Agricultural Mechanics
Selection, care, and use of common farm tools, projects of wood and metal; mechanical skills in the field of agriculture. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Course fee, $50)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
MEAG 3. Agricultural Tractors
Study of functions physical capabilities, applications, economics and improvement of tractors. Testing and analysis of tractors in laboratory and field conditions to maximize efficiencies. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; 5 hours field operation)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
MEAG 5. Power Equipment Safety
Safety training for operation of power equipment. Meets requirements of Senate Bill 198 and University Agricultural Laboratory (UAL) for classroom safety instruction on using tractors and similar power equipment. Satisfactory completion meets safety training portion requirement of the UAL Tractor License. (16 hours, meets four consecutive times) CR/NC grading only. (Formerly PLANT 170T)
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
MEAG 20. Agricultural Machinery and Equipment
The study of functions and applications of machinery and equipment. Setup, and calibration, analysis and adjustment of agricultural machinery common to the San Joaquin Valley under field conditions will be emphasized. Equipment will be evaluated for efficiency and effective performance. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
MEAG 50. Metallurgical Processes
(MEAG 50 same as IT 71) Fundamentals of metallurgy; properties and characteristics of metals; survey of metal welding processes, equipment, and procedures; theory-discussion and laboratory experience in oxygen-fuel welding, cutting, brazing, and shielded metallic arc welding. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Course fee, $70)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
MEAG 53. Electricity and Electronics
(IT 52 same as MEAG 53.) Introduction to electricity including fundamentals of electrostatics, alternating and direct current electrical circuits, electrical calculations, magnetics, circuit applications, electrical measuring, and test equipment. Schematics and wiring diagrams, standards, and codes. (2 lecture, 2 lab hours) (Course fee, $5)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
MEAG 103. Electro-Hydraulics
Prerequisites: MEAG 3. Theory and practice in the operation, service, adjustment, and function of the component parts of fluid power systems. Design application of systems to agricultural equipment. Major emphasis is on computerized electronic controls of hydraulic systems. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
MEAG 112. Power Systems Technology
Prerequisite: MEAG 3. Principles of the internal combustion engine; overhauling, repairing, and adjusting of gasoline, diesel, and LPG farm engines. Practices in repair technology and engine replacement as well as cost analysis decisions. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
MEAG 113. Power Transmissions
Prerequisite: MEAG 3. Theory and operation of electro-hydraulic assist transmissions, synchronized transmissions; gear transmissions; clutches; brakes; final drives, selecting devices, mechanical front wheel drives, four wheel drive, and rubber/steel track drives. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
MEAG 114. Small Gasoline and Compact Diesel Engines
Prerequisite: MEAG 1. Theory of operation, maintenance, and repair of small gasoline and diesel internal combustion engines. Emphasis on use of small engines in agricultural education. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Course fee, $10)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
MEAG 120. Advanced Farm Machinery
Prerequisite: MEAG 3. Theory, operation, and management economics of planters, tillage tools, harvesting and spraying equipment. Managerial responsibilities under State and Federal mandates will be emphasized. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 1. Introduction to Plant Science
Principles of plant structure, heredity, physiology and climate in relation to growth, adaptation and management of crops. Emphasis is placed on food and fiber crops.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 20. Introduction to Crop Science
Not open to students with credit in upper-division CR SC courses. Principles of production for cereal, row, forage and vegetable crops. Culture, insect and disease control, harvesting, storage, and marketing. (Formerly CRSC 1)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 30. Introduction to Fruit Science
Not open to students with credit in upper-division HORT courses. Origin and distribution of grape and tree fruit crops. Botanical and commercial classification of grapes and tree fruits and their culture in California. (Formerly HORT 1)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 40. Introduction to Ornamental Horticulture
Not open to students with credit in upper-division OH courses. Planting and maintenance of the home landscape; selection, planting, fertilization, and pruning of plants; lawn planting and care. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly OH 1) (Course fee, $10)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 41. Floral Design
Principles and rules of design and color using plants as a media; European and Japanese influences; emphasis on American line-mass and contemporary designs. An assortment of arrangements are made in lab. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Course fee, $50) (Formerly OH 4)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
PLANT 60. Introduction to Plant Health
Not open to students with previous credit in upper-division PLT H courses. Origin, history, and evaluation of protective measures (chemical, biological, and cultural) for the management of insects, diseases, weeds, and rodents in the field and around the home. (Formerly PLTH 1)
Units: 3
PLANT 70. Introduction to Irrigated Soils
Interpretation of physical and chemical properties of biological and mineral matter for the management of soils in irrigated agriculture. Emphasis on soil/plant and plant/water relationships. (Formerly SW 1)
Units: 3
PLANT 71. Agricultural Water
Water resources and problems in California; water requirements for agricultural and ornamental crops; irrigation scheduling and application methods. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly SW 2)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 99. Introduction to Biometrics
Prerequisite: Math 11 or permission of instructor. Introduction to experimental methods and statistical procedures with particular emphasis on applied biological systems. Design of experiments; statistical analysis and interpretation.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 100. Aspects of Crop Productivity
Prerequisite: BIOL 11. Study of the growth, development, and basic physiological processes of cultivated crops. Environmental influences on crop growth and development processes and management techniques to minimize stresses and maximize crop yield and quality.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 101. Crop Nutrition
Prerequisite: PLANT 172. Evaluation of nutrient elements in soils; application of fertilizers and organic waste to meet nutrient requirements; soil and plant tissue analysis and interpretation; fertilizer recommendations for different crops. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly SW 101)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
PLANT 105. Food, Society, and Environment
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area B completed and Junior standing required. Linkages among food production systems, human social behavior, and environmental quality. Basic principles of environmental and agricultural sciences as applied to interrelationships among social value systems, agricultural activities and environmental resources. G.E. Integration IB.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: IB
PLANT 107. Plant Propagation
Prerequisite: BIOL 11, CHEM 3A. Principles and practices of propagating plants, sexual and asexual. Seeds, cuttings, layering, grafting, buddling, and tissue culture. Propagation media and rooting aids. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips) (Course fee, $10)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 108. Micropropagation
Prerequisites: BIOL 11, and BIOL 161 or CHEM 150 or permission of instructor. Principles of plant propagation by aseptic cell and organ culture as a means of rapid cloning, elimination of systemic plant diseases, production of somatic hybrids, ploidy change, and other genetic variants for use in plant breeding. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly PLANT 102)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 110W. Dimensions in Agriculture
Prerequisites: satisfactory completion of the ENGL 5B or ENGL 10 graduation requirement. Current agricultural problems and developments; nature of agricultural industries in a changing world. Interrelationships among agriculture, government, labor, and the public. Meets the upper-division writing skills requirement for graduation.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 120. Row Crops
Prerequisites: BIOL 11, PLANT 20. The culture of beans, cotton, sugar beets, and oil crops; varieties, nutrition, insect, disease, and weed control; harvest, storage, uses, and marketing. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly CRSC 101)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 121. Cereal and Forage Crops
Prerequisites: BIOL 11, PLANT 20. The culture of barley, corn, sorghum, oats, rice, rye and wheat; varieties, nutrition, insect disease, and weed control; harvest, storage, uses, and marketing. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly CRSC 102)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 122. Range Ecology and Management
Prerequisites: BIOL 10 or BIOL 11, PLANT 20. Identification of range and pasture plants; carrying capacity; methods of range and pasture improvement, grazing management, water development, rodents, fertilization, reseeding, brush removal; mountain range resources. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly CRSC 105)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
PLANT 123E. Vegetable Production
Prerequisites: BIOL 11, PLANT 20. Cultural practices, harvesting, processing, and marketing of vegetables of economic importance to California and the San Joaquin Valley. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (field trip fee, $65) (Formerly CRSC 111)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 124E. Organic Crop Production
Prerequisites: BIOL 11, PLANT 20. Cultural practices, harvesting, processing, and marketing of organically grown crops of economic importance to California and the San Joaquin Valley. (2 lectures, 3 lab hours) (Formerly CRSC 115)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
PLANT 130. Fruit Species of California
Prerequisite: BIOL 11 or PLANT 30 or PLANT 40. Fruit and nut species common to California, their adaptation and uses. (Formerly HORT 110)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 132. Principles of Pomology II
Prerequisite: BIOL 11 or PLANT 30. Pruning, fruit and vegetative development, pollination, rootstocks, propagation, and nutrition. Crop fundamentals of spring cultural practices. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly HORT 112) (Course fee, $10)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 133. Citrus and Subtropical Fruits
Prerequisite: BIOL 10 or BIOL 11 or PLANT 30. Geographic distribution, climatic and soil adaptation of subtropical fruit crops. Fruit and vegetative development and cultural practices for globally important fruit crops. Emphasis on citrus and olive (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly HORT 113)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 134. Micrometeorology
(GEOG 114 same as PLANT 134.) Prerequisites: MATH 75 (or equivalent) and GEOG 5 (or equivalent), or permission of instructor. Micrometeorological influences on local climates including natural ecosystems and varying agricultural canopies. Local climate influences on wildlife, domestic animals, and humans. Manipulation of local climate including frost protection, irrigation and wind sheltering. Microclimates of non-uniform terrain and urban environment.
Units: 3
PLANT 140. Greenhouse & Nursery Crop Production
Prerequisites: BIOL 11 or PLANT 40. Fundamentals of greenhouse and nursery crop production. Emphasis on sustainable and economically viable production and management systems for significant flower, foliage and nursery crops. (3 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips) (Formerly OH 104)
Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 141. Woody Plant Materials
Prerequisites: BIOL 11 or PLANT 40. Survey of woody plant materials including identification, growth habits and cultural requirements. Emphasis on plants used in the California landscape. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trips) (Formerly OH 108)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
PLANT 142. Herbaceous Plant Materials
Prerequisites: BIOL 11 or PLANT 40. Survey of herbaceous plants materials including identification, growth habits and cultural requirements. Emphasis on plants used in California landscapes, botanical gardens and arboreta. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; 2 Saturday field trips) (Formerly OH 109)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 143. Turfgrass Production and Management
Prerequisites: BIOL 11 or PLANT 40. Production and maintenance of grass for lawns, public parks, public institutions, playgrounds, playing fields, golf courses, bowling greens; identification of turfgrasses and turfgrass seed. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours; field trip) (Formerly OH 110)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 150. Crop Improvement
Prerequisite: BIOL 11. Application of genetic, cytological and environmental principles to the improvement of plants; heredity and variation in plants, effects of environmental factors, biotechnology, self- and cross-fertilization, principles and results of selection and hybridization in plant improvement.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 160. Weed Science
Prerequisites: BIOL 11; CHEM 3A. Vegetation management in California. Identification of common weeds. Fundamentals of preventive, cultural, biological, physical, and chemical weed control methods. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly PLTH 105)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 161. Plant Pathology
Prerequisite: BIOL 1A or BIOL 11. Study of the causal agents, disease cycles, and control of plant diseases. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly PLTH 106) (Course fee, $7)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 162. Economic Entomology
Prerequisite: BIOL 11. Biology, ecology, management and taxonomy of economically important arthropods, with special emphasis on agricultural ecosystems in California. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly PLTH 103) (Course fee, $10)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 163. Integrated Pest Management
Prerequisite: PLANT 162. Concepts and principles of integrated pest management. Insect and mite pest problems; sampling techniques; biology and ecology of major agricultural crop pests; integration of control measures for the management of economic pests. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly PLTH 108)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 164. Plant Nematology
Prerequisites: BIOL 1A or BIOL 11. Biology, taxonomy, host-parasite relationships, soil ecology, conventional and innovative controls, plant diagnosis and laboratory techniques with emphasis on plant-parasitic species. (Formerly PLTH 104)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 165. Pesticides
Prerequisite: CHEM 3B or CHEM 8. Typical uses, modes of action, mechanisms of selectivity, environmental interactions, and user safety of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, nematicides, rodenticides, and plant growth regulators. Effective and safe use of agriculture chemicals by reading labels and following laws/regulations. (Formerly PLTH 102)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 166. Mycology
Prerequisites: Biol 1A or Biol 11. Growth, physiology, reproduction, taxonomy, ecology, and economic impacts of fungi, slime molds, and oomycota. Role of fungi as symbionts, pathogens, and saprophytes are examined (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly PLANT 170T)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
PLANT 167. Diagnosis and Control of Plant Diseases
Prerequisite: PLANT 161. Techniques for diagnosis of specific diseases in California and selection criteria for control strategies. Students will practice diagnostic techniques for selecting preventative, cultural, biological, physical, and chemical disease control strategies for major plant diseases. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours) (Formerly PLTH 109)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
PLANT 168. Biological Control
Prerequisite: PLANT 162. Study of the action of parasites, predators, and pathogens on the population dynamics of their host/prey organisms; focus on arthropods, with additional emphasis on microorganisms, weeds, nematodes, and vertebrates. (Formerly PLTH 107)
Units: 3
PLANT 170T. Topics in Plant Science
Prerequisite: junior standing. Selected topics in plant science, agronomy, horticulture, and other associated areas. Topics may require lab hours.
Units: 1-4, Repeatable up to 6 units
PLANT 171. Soils in the Environment
Prerequisite: CHEM 3A. Physical, chemical, and biolgoical properties of soils as the interconnecting link in the biosphere; factors that influence soil formation; role of soil in food and fiber production. Not open to Plant Science and Viticulture & Enology majors. ( 2 lecture; 3 lab hours). No credit if taken after PLANT 172. (Formerly SW 100N)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 172. Soils
Prerequisites: CHEM 3A, intermediate algebra. Physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils as a medium for plant growth and as a natural body, factors that influence soil formation; food and fiber production; fertilizer and soil amendment use and environmental impact; soil's role in the biosphere. (Formerly SW 100)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 172L. Soils Lab
Prerequisite: PLANT 172 or concurrently. Physical, chemical, and biological analysis. Interpretation of field and laboratory data. (3 lab hours) (Saturday field trip) (Formerly SW 100L) (Course fee, $10)
Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 174. Soil and Water Management
Prerequisites: PLANT 71, PLANT 172 (may be taken concurrently). Management of irrigated soils with particular emphasis on crop water requirements, irrigation scheduling, salinity, and other physical and chemical soil problems of field crops, permanent crops and landscapes. (Formerly SW 104)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall
PLANT 175. Irrigation Systems
Prerequisite: PLANT 71. Principles of planning, installation and evaluation of irrigation systems for field crops, permanent crops and ornamental horticulture. Pressurized systems (sprinkler and drip irrigation) emphasized. (Formerly SW 111)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
PLANT 180. Undergraduate Research
Open to juniors and seniors. Exploratory work on a suitable agricultural problem in plant science. Approved for RP grading.
Units: 1-4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 190. Independent Study
See Academic Placement--Independent Study. Approved for RP grading.
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
PLANT 194I. Agricultural Internship
Prerequisite: junior standing; approval of faculty adviser and department chair. Field experience in your career specialty that integrates with classroom instruction. Written reports of knowledge and experience gained are required. CR/NC grading only.
Units: 1-8
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
PLANT 196. Crop Projects
Prerequisite: MEAG 3, appropriate production course, UAL Tractor License, and permission of instructor. Knowledge gained from classroom instruction applied to field conditions. Students will participate in growing and marketing a crop using the University Agricultural Laboratory. Approved for RP grading.
Units: 1, Repeatable up to 4 units
PLANT 250T. Topics in Plant Science
Prerequisites: upper-division plant science COURSE appropriate to study topic; or permission of instructor. Advanced studies in a selected area of Plant Science which could include new or emerging issues and technologies. Topics may require lab hours.
Units: 3, Repeatable up to 6 units
PLANT 251. Soil-Plant-Water Relations
Prerequisites: BIOL 161 and PLANT 172. Water flow and solute transport through the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC). Soil-plant-water relationships affecting water use efficiency, agricultural productivity, and environmental quality. Management of salinity, drainage, and trace elements. Irrigation scheduling and water quality. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring - odd
PLANT 252. Plant Nutrition
Prerequisite: BIOL 161, and PLANT 172, or permission of instructor. Soil factors influencing nutrient availability, mineral requirements of plants, acquisition and translocation of nutrients and their role in plant metabolism. Soil and tissue analysis for fertility management. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring - even
PLANT 255. Advanced Plant Breeding
Prerequisite: PLANT 150. Principles and techniques of plant improvement, breeding methods, combining ability, sterility systems, quantitative genetic analysis, heritability estimates, experimental designs for plant breeding.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall - even
PLANT 257. Physiology of Cultivated Plants
Prerequisite: BIOL 161, or permission of instructor. Plant cell structure and function. Response of cultivated plants to the environment. Physiology and hormonal control of flower induction, fruit set, and development. Review of pertinent current publications.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Spring
PLANT 261. Advanced Plant Health Management
Prerequisites: PLANT 163 or permission of instructor. Comprehensive study of arthropod, disease, and weed problems in California cropping systems. Examination of complex relationships among crop plants and other biological organisms in agro-ecosystems design crop health management programs that are economically viable and ecologically sound.
Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall - odd
PLANT 270. Seminar in Plant Science
Reviews of published and/or original research in the broad areas of crop science, soil and water relations, and plant health.
Units: 1, Repeatable up to 4 units
PLANT 290. Independent Study
See Academic Placement -- Independent Study. Approved for RP grading.
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
PLANT 299. Thesis
Prerequisite: prior advancement to candidacy. See Criteria for "Thesis and Project." Thesis research work and preparation and submission of an acceptable, written thesis for the master's degree. Oral presentation of thesis research required. Must take 3 units in each of two semesters. Approved for RP grading.
Units: 3, Repeatable up to 6 units
PLANT 299C. Thesis Continuation
Prerequisite: PLANT 299. For continuous enrollment while completing the thesis. May enroll twice with department approval. Additional enrollments must be approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies.
Units: 0
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