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systems including land and channel phase hydrologic processes
and pollutant transport processes. Investigation of the structure
and capabilities of current agricultural watershed computer
models.
AGE 6332-Advanced Agricultural Structures (3) Design criteria
for agricultural structures including structural strength, steady
and unsteady heat transfer analysis, environmental modifica-
tion, plant and animal environment physiology, and structural
systems analysis.
AGE 6442-Advanced Agricultural Process Engineering (3)
Engineering problems in handling and processing agricultural
products.
AGE 6615-Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer in Biological
Systems (3) Prereq: CNM 3100, EML 5152. Analytical and
numerical technique solutions to problems of heat and mass
transfer in biological systems. Emphasis on non-homogenous,
irregularly-shaped products with respiration and transpiration.
AGE 6905-Individual Work in Agricultural Engineering (1-4;
max: 6) Special problems in agricultural engineering.
AGE 6910-Supervised Research (1-5) S/U.
AGE 6931-Seminar (1) Discussions of research, current trends,
and practices in agricultural engineering. S/U.
AGE 6933-Special Topics in Agricultural Engineering (1-4;
max: 6) Lectures, laboratory and/or special projects covering
special topics in agricultural engineering.
AGE 6940-Supervised Teaching (1-5) S/U.
AGE 6971-Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
AGE 6986-Research Methods in Agricultural Engineering (3)
Approaches to scientific research, scientific method, design of
experiments, research practices and techniques, and presen-
tation of results.
AGE 7980-Research for Doctoral Dissertation (1-15) S/U.
MAG 6312-Advanced Farm Machinery Management (3)
Prereq: MAG 3312; COP3110 or consent of instructor. The func-
tional and economic applications of machine monitoring and
robotics. Analysis of farm machinery systems reliability per-
formance. Queueing theory, linear programming and ergonomic
considerations for machine systems optimization.


AGRONOMY
College of Agriculture
 GRADUATE FACULTY 1982-83
 Chairman: C. E. Dean. Graduate Coordinator: K. H.
 Quesenberry. Professors: C. E. Dean; W. G. Duncan;
 J. R. Edwardson; W. B. Ennis, Jr.; M. H. Gaskins; V. E.
 Green, Jr.; K. Hinson; E. S. Homer; A. E. Kretschmer, Jr.;
 D. E. McCloud; P. Mislevy 111; G. O. Mott; A. J. Norden;
 P. L. Pfahler; H. L. Popenoe; G. M. Prine; O. C. Ruelke;
 S. C. Schank; T. R. Sinclair; R. L. Smith; I. D. Teare; S. H.
 West; E. B. Whitty; M. Wilcox. Associate Professors: L. H.
 Allen, Jr.; R. D. Barnett; K. J. Boote; B. J. Brecke; J. B.
 Brolmann; W. L. Currey; A. E. Dudeck; L. S. Dunavin;
 G. J. Fritz; R. N. Gallaher; L. A. Garrard; D. W. Gorbet;
 W. T. Haller; R. S. Kalmbacher; F. le Grand; W. R.
 Ocumpaugh; K. H. Quesenberry; V. N. Schroder; D. L.
 Sutton; D. H. Teem; D. L. Wright. Assistant Professors:
 S. L. Albrecht; J. M. Bennett; P. S. Chourey; C. K.
 Hiebsch; D. A. Knauft; W. D. Pitman.
 The Department of Agronomy offers the Doctor of
 Philosophy and the Master of Science degrees with
 specialization in crop ecology, crop nutrition and
 physiology, crop production, weed science, genetics,
 cytogenetics, or plant breeding. Specializations for the
 Doctor of Philosophy degree also include forest genetics
 and physiology. A nonthesis degree, Master of Agricul-
 ture, is offered with a major in agronomy.
 Graduate programs emphasize the development and
 subsequent application of basic principles in each
 specialization to agronomic plants in Florida and
throughout the tropics. The continuing need for
increased food supplies is reflected in departmental


research efforts. When compatible with a student's
program and permitted by prevailing circumstances,
some thesis and dissertation research may be conducted
wholly or in part in one or more of several tropical
countries.
 A science background with basic courses in mathe-
 matics, chemistry, botany, microbiology, and physics is
 required of new graduate students. In addition to
 graduate courses in agonomy, the following courses in
 related areas are acceptable for graduate credit as part
 of the student's major: AGE 5643-Biological and
 Agricultural Systems Analysis; AGE 5646-Biological and
 Agricultural Systems Simulation; ANS 6368-Quantitative
 Genetics; ANS 6388-Genetics of Animal Improvement;
 ANS 6715-Ruminant Physiology and Metabolism; ANS
 6452-Principles of Forage Quality Evaluation; BOT
 5225-Plant Anatomy; BOT 6516-Plant Metabolism;
 BOT 6426-Plant Nutrition; BOT 6566-Plant Growth
 and Development; BOT 6646-Ecology of Aquatic Plants;
 HOS 6201-Breeding Perennial Cultivars; HOS
 6212-Herbaceous Horticultural Crop Breeding; HOS
 6231-Biochemical Genetics of Higher Plants; HOS
 6611-Agricultural Meteorology; HOS 6343-Stress
 Physiology; HOS 6631-Environmental Measurements;
 PCB 6307-Limnology; PCB 6356-Ecosystems of the
 Tropics; PLS 5652-Herbicide Technology; PLS
 6623-Weed Ecology; SOS 6136-Soil Fertility; STA
 6168-Advanced Methods of Statistics.

 AGR 6233-Tropical Pasture and Forage Science (4) Prereq:
 AGR 4231 and ANS 5446, or consent of instructor. Potential
 of natural grasslands of tropical and subtropical regions.
 Development of improved pastures and forages and their
 utilization in livestock production.
 AGR 6237-Agronomic Methods of Forage Evaluation (3)
 Prereq or coreq: STA 6168. Experimental techniques for field
 evaluation of forage plants. Design of grazing trials and pro-
 cedures for estimating yield and botanical composition in the
 grazed and ungrazed pasture.
 AGR 6307-Advanced Genetics (2) Prereq: AGR 3033, 4321,
 orASG 3313. Advanced genetic concepts and modern genetic
 theory.'
 AGR 6311-Population Genetics (2) Prereq: AGR 3033, STA
 6166. Application of statistical principles to biological popula-
 tions in relation to gene frequency zygotic frequency, mating
 systems, and the effects of selection, mutation and migration
 on equilibrium populations.
 AGR 6323-Advanced Plant Breeding (3) Prereq: AGR 3210,
 4321, 6311, and STA 6167. Genetic basis for plantbreeding
 procedures.
 AGR 6353-Cytogenetics (3) Prereq: basic courses in genetics
 and cytology. Genetic variability with emphasis on inter-
 relationships of cytologic and genetic concepts. Chromosome
 structure and number, chromosomal aberrations, apomixis, and
 application of cytogenetic principles.
 AGR 6380-Genetics Seminar (1; max: 3) Current literature and
 developments in genetics.
 AGR 6422-Crop Nutrition (2) Prereq: BOT3503C. Nutritional
 influences on differentiation, composition, growth, and yield
 of agronomic plants.
 AGR 6442-Physiology of Agronomic Plants (3) Prereq: BOT
 5505C. Yield potentials of crops as influenced by photosynthetic
 efficiencies, respiration, translocation, drought, and canopy
 architecture.
 AGR 6511--Crop Ecology (4) Prereq: AGR 3210, BOT 3503C,
 PCB 3043C, or equivalent. Relationships of ecological factors
 and climatic classification to agroecosystems, and crop model-
 ing of the major crops.
 AGR 6661C-Sugarcane Processing Technology (2) Prereq:
 CHM 3200, 3200L. Chemical and physical processes required
 for crystallization and refining of sugar.
 AGR 6751-Biochemistry of Herbicides (2) Prereq: CHM 5235.
 Metabolism, mechanism of action, and structure-activity
 relationships of herbicides.
AGR 6905-Agronomic Problems (1-5; max: 8) Prereq: