DIPLOMA PROGRAM


UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE

GRADUATE STUDIES

Overview

• the graduate program of coursework offers considerable choice to the student
• based mainly on the student's primary interests and previous scholarly training
• a series of graduate courses in the student's chosen field offered by the department is required for the major credit
• a wide range of ancilliary field (e.g. botany, chemistry, statistics, soils, etc.) may be chosen to complete the graduate program

Programs of study and research are offered in the following areas, leading to the M.Sc. and Ph. D. degrees:

Agronomy and Plant Protection

Projects may be undertaken in:

• crop management systems
• weed and crop ecology
• weed control
• forage production
• environmental crop physiology
• pathology, including epidemiology, biological control in wheat, canola/rapeseed, potatoes and other crops
• molecular host-pathogen interaction

Plant Breeding and Genetics

The department has active breeding programs in wheat and canola/rapeseed.  Studies involving these crops are available in:

• breeding methodology
• genetic and molecular genetic
• cytogenetic programs dealing with cromosome manipulation

Plant Physiology-Biochemistry

Programs are designed to provide comprehensive training in the biochemistry of cereal grains and other major seed crops, and the physiology of growth and development of crop plants.

Biochemistry projects may include:

• gene expression during grain development and germination
• structure and function of cereal proteins and carbohydrates
• carbohydrate metabolism in cereal grains

Physiology projects using both traditional and molecula genetic approaches may include:

• mineral nutrition
• nitrogen metabolism
• mycorrhizal associations
• germination physiology
• vegetable physiology
• hormonal regulation
• plant cell culture

Contact plantscience_gradstudies@umanitoba.ca for program and funding information.