Horticulture

Collection Development Policy Statement

Library's Collection Development Objectives

Support faculty and student research and the curriculum through the doctoral degree level in the discipline of Horticulture, including floriculture, landscape horticulture, turfgrass, nursery crop culture, pomology, and olericulture; and support research projects and programs conducted at the affiliated research stations of the LSU Agricultural Center, including the Burden Research Plantation in Baton Rouge.

Curriculum Program Descriptions:

The Department of Horticulture is part of the College of Agriculture. There are 15 faculty members in the department, all with Ph.D. degrees. Most faculty members hold joint appointments with the University and the LSU Agricultural Center. LSU offers the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in horticulture, with interdisciplinary graduate studies also available in plant physiology, food science, and genetics. Listed below are the numbers of degrees awarded to students in Horticulture for the past five years:

Degrees Awarded *

  Includes interdepartmental degrees awarded in Plant and Soils Systems with a concentration in agronomic crops.

The following degree programs are offered which the Library collection supports:

Areas of Specialization/Major Faculty Research Interests

• Vegetable crops physiology: Effect of microclimate modification and cultural practices on vegetable crops growth and development
• Sustainable vegetable crops production practices
• Peach breeding and cultivar development; cultural studies with fruit and vegatable crops; cultivar evaluations with fruit and vegetable crops; fertility studies with container-grown blueberries; identification, preservation, and utilization of native fruit plants; Agrobacterium mediated transformation of strawberry
• Development of new sweetpotato cultivars; sweetpotato molecular genetics; disease and insect resistance
• Nutritional and organoleptic qualities of sweetpotato; enzyme- augmented processing; mayhaw utilization: food plant design; product and process development of fruit and vegetable foods
• Floriculture, ornamental horticulture, plant nutrition, whole plant growth, carbon allocation
• Ornamental Horticulture: Commercial Nursery Crops, Water Quality, Irrigation Management, Stress Physiology
• Culture and evaluation of woody ornamentals in the landscape; nutrient relations in landscape beds
• Evaluation and management of turfgrass cultivars; establishment, fertility, and cultural management of turf; environmental stress and water use of turfgrasses; nutrition of turfgrass species and cultivars related to fertility use and plant tissue analysis as a tool to diagnose nutrient deficiencies; rooting characterization of turfgrasses; plant nutrition
• Plant evaluation, home ground and commercial nursery crop best management practices
• Post harvest physiology; tropical horticulture; compositional and quality changes during ripening; carbohydrate metabolism; chilling injury; international trade

Classed Analysis

Prepared: January 15, 1998