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Welcome to RC10803, Seed Science and Technology. This course covers the science behind seed development, germination physiology, and viability testing. It also includes seed conditioning, production, and storage, as well as seed testing labs and certification apart of standards for seed purity and the seed trade network.
This course focuses on statistical analysis and its application in agriculture. The course will show how statistics is being used to evaluate the results of agricultural research. The course will cover both descriptive statistics, which summarize the data obtained in research, and inferential statistics, which are used to decide whether the results of research confirm the researcher’s hypotheses. Specific topics to be covered include sampling and estimation, hypothesis testing and methods of statistical analysis.
This is a fundamental soil science course which introduces students to the basic physical, chemical, biological and morphological properties of soils and functions in relation to agriculture. Emphasis will be placed in the context of tropical conditions with particular reference to Malaysian soils. Soils will be perceived as a product of various processes acting over time on parent materials. The wide variety of soils resulting from the soil forming processes and their classification using the standard USDA and local (Malaysian) soil classification systems will be highlighted. The importance of appropriate management and land use practices to ensure conservation and sustainability for agriculture will be discussed.