Growth and Development of Horticultural Crops (1+1)

Course overview

• This course provides basic information’s on physiological mechanisms of growth, flowering and development of fruits and seeds, besides elaborating the mechanisms of abscission, senescence and fruit ripening. Also deals with existence of organ forming substances, moving in various pollar patterns and controlling growth and development in horticultural crop plants.
Overall aim of the course

• To impart basic knowledge on the natural phytohormones and their specific functions in controlling the growth and developments
• To understand the physiology of canopy management flowering, fruit setting and seed development in horticultural crops
• To understand the usage of synthetic growth regulators and their applications for overall manipulation of growth and development in horticultural crops.
• Intended learning outcome of the course
Knowledge

• To develop knowledge about the functions of various natural growth hormones in the regulation of growth and development processes.
• To develop adequate knowledge about the application of synthetic growth hormones for the manipulation of various physiological processes.
Skills

• To develop the ability to analyse the growth processes with physiological reasoning’s
• To develop analytical skills to prepare suitable hormonal formulation for the regulation of growth and development processes.