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Lecture—2 hours; discussion/laboratory—1 hour. Multiple perspectives and connections between natural sciences, social sciences, and agriculture. Emphasizes agriculture's central position between nature and society and its key role in our search for a productive, lasting and hospitable environment. Several full-period field trips provide hands-on learning. Not open for credit to students who have completed Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 1. (Former Course Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 1.)—I. (I.) Gradziel
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion/laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: high school course in biology and chemistry recommended. A holistic introduction to the underlying botanical and physiological principles of cultivated plants and their response to the environment. Includes concepts behind plant selection, cultivation, and utilization. Laboratories include discussion and interactive demonstrations. Not open for credit to students who have completed Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 2. (Former course Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 2.)—II. (II.) Saltveit, Marrush
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Lecture—1 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: for non-majors. Hands-on experience with plants cultivated for food, environmental enhancement and personal satisfaction. Topics include establishing a vegetable garden, pruning and propagation activities, growing flowers and ornamental plants, and the role of plants in human health and well-being. Not open for credit to students who have completed Plant Biology 1 or Plant Sciences 2. (Former course Plant Biology 1.)—I, III. (I, III.) Marrush
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Lecture—3 hours. Field trip seventh week of quarter. Biological and environmental principles of tree-crop agriculture emphasizing California production. Topics include temperate and subtropical species, biotechnology and genetic improvement, environmental physiology, plant and crop growth, pest and disease control, consumer issues. Not open for credit to students who have completed Plant Sciences 10. (Former course Plant Sciences 10.) GE Credit: SciEng.—II. (II.) Polito
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Discussion—3 hours; term paper. Introduction to scientific methods and current understanding of genetics, metabolism, and cellular structure in plants, with special emphasis on topics related to societal issues, such as herbal medicines and genetically modified organisms. Designed for students not specializing in biology. Not open for credit to students who have completed Plant Biology 11. GE Credit: SciEng, Wri.—I. (I.) Inoue
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Lecture—1.5 hours; laboratory/discussion—2 hours; autotutorial—2 hours. Prerequisite: high school algebra. Concepts of computing and applications using personal computers, spreadsheets, database management, word processing and communications. Not open for students who have completed Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 21, Computer Science Engineering 15, 30, 35, or Engineering 5. (Former course Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 21.)—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) Laca, Lieth, Saltveit
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Lecture—1 hour; discussion—1 hour; laboratory—3 hours. Principles and practices of organic production of annual crops. Including organic crops, soil, and pest management, cover cropping, composting, seeding, transplanting, irrigation, harvesting and marketing. Not open for credit to students who have completed Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 49. (Former course Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 49.) (P/NP grading only.)—I, III. (I, III.) Van Horn
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Internship—3-36 hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Work experience on or off campus in subject areas pertaining to plant and environmental sciences. Internship supervised by faculty member. May be repeated for credit. (P/NP grading only.)
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor; primarily for lower division students. (P/NP grading only.)—I, II, III, IV. (I, II, III, IV.)
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor; primarily for lower division students. (P/NP grading only.)—I, II, III, IV. (I, II, III, IV.)
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 2 or Biological Sciences 1C or consent of instructor. Principles of energy capture and photosynthesis, water use, and nutrient cycling. Conversion of these resources into products (carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and other chemicals) by plants. Emphasis on the relationships between environmental resources, plant metabolism and plant growth.—I. (I.) Fischer, Zakharov
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 100A or the equivalent (may be taken concurrently). Techniques and instruments used to study plant metabolic processes, including water relations, respiration, photosynthesis, enzyme kinetics, microscopy, immunochemistry, and nitrogen fixation. Quantitative methods, problem solving, and practical applications are emphasized.—(I.)
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 100A or consent of instructor. Principles of the cellular mechanisms and hormonal regulation underlying plant growth, development, and reproduction. Emphasis on how these processes contribute to the harvestable yield of cultivated plants and can be managed to increase crop productivity and quality.—II. (II.) Labavitch, Saltveit
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 100B or equivalent (may be taken concurrently). Laboratory exercises in plant growth and development and their regulation, including photomorphogenesis, plant growth regulators, plant anatomy, seed germination, fruit ripening and senescence. Includes field trips to illustrate relationships to cropping and marketing systems.—(II.)
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 100A or consent of instructor. Principles of plant interactions with their physical and biological environments and their acquisition of the resources needed for growth and reproduction. Emphasis on how management practices and environmental conditions affect crop productivity.—III. (III.) Brown, Shackel
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 100C (may be taken concurrently). Techniques and instruments used to study plant interactions with their physical and biological environments, including light responses, transpiration, microclimatology, nutrient availability and utilization, biomass accumulation. Quantitative methods and modeling are emphasized.—(III.)
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 2 or consent of instructor. Interaction between agriculture and the environment. Focus on the interaction between agriculture and the environment to address the principles required to analyze conflict and develop solutions to complex problems facing society. Not open for credit to students who have completed Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 101. (Former course Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 101.)—II. (II.) Phillips
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—8 hours. Prerequisite: course 2, Biological Sciences 1C, 2C, or equivalent course in Plant Sciences. Survey of the flora of California, emphasizing recognition of important vascular plant families and genera and use of taxonomic keys for species identification. Current understanding of relationships among families. Principles of plant taxonomy and phylogenetic systematics. One Saturday field trip. (Same course as Plant Biology 102.)—III. (III.) Potter
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Lecture—2 hours; laboratory/discussion—3 hours. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 1C or course 2, Chemistry 8B. Introduction to the ecological principles of integrated pest management, biology of different classes of pests and the types of losses they cause, population assessment, evaluation of advantages and disadvantages of different techniques used for pest management, IPM programs. Not open for credit to students who have completed Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 105. (Former course Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 105.)
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course in general botany or course 2 recommended. Fundamentals of field crop production in temperate and tropical climates. Resource utilization and economic, political and social problems are considered in relation to technological problems and their influences on agricultural development. Not open for credit to students who have completed Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 110A. (Former course Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 110A.)—II. (II.)
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course in general botany or course 2; course 110A recommended. Application of agronomic principles in production of temperate and tropical crops. Specific crops discussed with reference to management and efficient use of physical and biological resources. Not open for credit to students who have completed Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 110B. (Former course Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 110B.)
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Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 2; course 110A recommended. Horticultural principles applied to production and management systems for vegetable crops. Laboratory and discussion will illustrate efficient field management and resource use practices. Not open for credit to students who have completed Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 110C. (Former course Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 110C.)—I. Bloom, Marrush
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Laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 110B (may be taken concurrently). Field-oriented introduction to principles of agronomic crop production. Not open for credit to students who have completed Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 110L. (Former course Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 110L.)—(I.)
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 2, Biological Sciences 1C, 2C, or consent of instructor. Forages as a world resource in food production. Ecological principles governing the adaptation, establishment, growth and management of perennial and annual forages, including pastures, rangelands and hay; aspects of forage quality which affect feeding value to livestock. Not open for credit to students who have completed Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 112. (Former course Agricultural Management and Rangeland Resources 112.) Offered in alternate years.—III. Teuber
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Lecture—1 hour; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 2, Biological Sciences 1C, 2C or equivalent. Physiology, growth, development and environmental requirements of fruit trees and the cultural practices used to maintain them. Emphasis on the application of biological principles in the culture of commercially important temperate zone fruit tree species. Not open for credit to students that have completed Plant Biology 173. (Former course Plant Biology 173.)—II. (II.) DeJong
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