Plant Cultivation II: Hydroponics, Aquaponics, Tissue Culture, Genetics and Extraction

Catalog description

This course builds upon the major concepts introduced in BIO2510: Plant Cultivation I – Soil, Soil Substitutes and Disease Management. Students learn how to propagate plants from cells, seeds and mature vegetative cuttings via hydroponics, aquaponics and tissue culture systems. The application of biotechnology to optimize and create economically valuable plants is discussed. Students are introduced to harvesting of targeted parts of the plant and chemical extraction techniques to isolate bioactive compounds for medicinal purposes. This course is taken concurrently with Plant Cultivation II: Hydroponics, Aquaponics, Tissue Culture, Genetic Manipulation and Extractions Laboratory.