PLSOILIN 200 Plant Propagation
Instructor: Michael Marcotrigiano
Semester: Fall
Lecture, Laboratory
Credit: 3
Course description:
The basic principles and techniques for propagating plants by both sexual and asexual means, including seeds, cuttings, bulbs, and tissue culture. The hormonal and physiological factors affecting rooting, seed dormancy, grafting, budding, and layering. Prerequisite: BIOLOGY 103 or equivalent.

Course schedule:

Week:	Discussion topic:
1	Introduction, types of propagation, phase change, growing media, control of pathogens and pests
2	Plant hormones and growth regulators, plant nomenclature, plant patents, plant variety protection
3	Plant chimeras, variability and mutation, phase change, propagation of bulbs and corms
4	Other modified stems and roots, propagation by cuttings, polarity
5	Factors that affect rooting
6	Factors that affect rooting
7	Layering techniques, grafting, reasons
8	Stock/Scion relationships, incompatibility; techniques for grafting
9	Techniques for budding, success factors, seed production and breeding
10	Seed formation, germination, apomixis, polyembryony, seed quality, dormancy, hormones
12	Seed-environmental factors, treatments, seed testing, longevity, dispersal, collection, storage
13	Micropropagation

Required Work:
3 Exams and Final Examinations
Laboratory Quizzes

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