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Contents in Brief
1
Agricultural Leadership . . . 2
2
Experiential Learning:
SAE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3
Communication and
Information Literacy in
Horticulture . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4
The Horticulture Industry 90
5
Horticultural Business
Management . . . . . . . . . . 120
6
Worker and Tool Safety . . . 154
7
Plant Taxonomy . . . . . . . 178
8
Plant Biology . . . . . . . . . . 196
9
Plant Growth and
Development . . . . . . . . . . 224
10
Environmental Conditions
for Growth . . . . . . . . . . . 248
11
Soils and Media . . . . . . . 278
12
Plant Nutrition . . . . . . . . 310
13
Seed Propagation . . . . . . 338
14
Stem and Leaf
Propagation . . . . . . . . . . . 364
15
Layering and Division . . . 384
16
Grafting and Budding . . . 404
17
Tissue Culture:
Micropropagation . . . . . . 428
18
Greenhouse Operation and
Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . 448
19
Greenhouse
Production . . . . . . . . . . . 478
20
Twenty-First Century
Horticulture . . . . . . . . . . 506
21
Nursery Production . . . . 536
22
Vegetable Production . . . 568
23
Fruit and Nut
Production . . . . . . . . . . . 598
24
Landscape Design . . . . . . 630
25
Floral Design . . . . . . . . . 664
26
Interior Plantscaping . . . 690
27
Landscape Installation
and Maintenance . . . . . . . 716
28
Turfgrass Management . . 744
29
Integrated Pest
Management . . . . . . . . . . 778
30
Insects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 802
31
Disease Management . . . 830
32
Weeds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 858
33
Pesticide Management
and Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . 876