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Horticulture Nursery Management
B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture • Semester 4 • SEC 221
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Practical Lecture Schedule
15 indexed topics01
Layout of model nursery.
02
Tools and equipment-identification and application. T
03
Different methods of breaking seed dormancy stratification, scarification and use of plant growth regulators.
04
Extraction and storage of healthy seeds.
05
Seed bed preparation.
06
Identification and raising of rootstocks for different fruit plants. 7, Soil solarization. T
08
Preparation of potting mixtures.
09
Selection of healthy scion wood, practices in different methods of plant propagation like cutting, layering, budding and grafting in fruit plants.
10
Micropropagation-explant preparation, media preparation, __2 culturing-meristem tip culture, axillary bud culture, micro-grafting and hardening of plants.
11
Nursery management practices ic. weed control, irrigation, nutrition, removal of sprouts etc.
12
Protection of nursery plants against adverse climatic conditions.
13
Familiarization with propagation structures. mist chamber, greenhouse, glasshouse, polyhouse and net house; and their maintenance.
14
Diagnosis and control of important diseases and pests in the nursery, lifting and packing of nursery plants.
15
Visit to commercial tissue culture laboratories and accredited nurseries.
16
Nursery registration act.
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