• Plants and People

Catalog description

The history, principles, and technology used to domesticate and improve food and beverage crops, lumber, cloth and rope fiber, medicinal, and herbal plants for human use. Emphasizes modern technologies to increase quality, shelf life, transportability, yield, pest resistance, growing season, and soil type tolerances. Includes technologies that raise ethical issues. Prerequisites: Laboratory Science (D) course and Mathematics (M) course. Offered: Occasionally.