HRT 812: Laboratory Research Techniques
Course Code: HRT 812
Credits and Offerings
- 2 credits (approximately 2 hour lectures and 2 hour lab each week)
- Fall semester each odd year.
- Open to Horticulture students. Permission from the Horticulture department is required for students from other departments.
Course description
Demonstration and experience of various research techniques in horticulture. To be taught by multiple instructors.
Course objectives
To allow graduate students to be familiar with research techniques in horticulture and to promote interaction between graduate students and faculty members
Topics
- Application of plant hormone to improve fruit quality
- Applied Technologies for Plant Science: 3D Printing to Robotics
- Basic sequence analysis techniques
- DNA and RNA extraction
- Horticultural Economics: developing a strategic profitability model
- Methods for assessing temperature stress
- Plant growth in a controlled environment
- Plant transformation and micro-propagation
- Seed germination, dormancy, and viability assessment
- Spectrometry, gas chromatography (GC), mass spectrum, HPLC , and Olfactometry
- Third-generation sequencing and analysis
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