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Course details
Course code: ROSS10057o12
Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: Ornamental plant production - basic course
Major: Horticulture
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Katarzyna Wróblewska
Language of instruction: Polish / English


Learning outcomes: Student gets knowledge about factors influencing cultivation of high quality plants and effectiveness of their production and interaction between them, recognizes basic species of ornamental plants and gets skills to propagate them.

Competences: Student is able to mention factors determining plant growth and development, is able to provide proper conditions for plant development using modern methods and propagate ornament plants using proper methods of vegetative or generative propagation for individual species

Prerequisites: Botany, Plant Physiology, Soil Management, Horticultural Engineering

Course content: Origin and state of production of ornamental plants, ecological requirements of ornamental plants: light, temperature, water, soil and medium, induction of flowering, growth regulators in ornamental plant cultivation, propagation of ornamental plants

Recommended literature: Dole J.M., Wilkins H.F., 1999. Floriculture: principles and practices. Prentice Hall, New Jersey Hartmann H.T., Kester D.E., Davies F.T., Geneve R.L. 2002. Plant propagation: principles and practices. Prentice Hall, New Jersey

Assessment methods: Credit, minim. knowledge to credit – 60%

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