在植物和环境科学系攻读研究生学位的学生具有全面的科学知识，为在学术界，政府和商业界的职业做好了准备。他们的专业和学术发展是通过现场和实验室科学方面的动手培训，以及与才华横溢，经验丰富的教授之间的关系指导来实现的。要求教职员工及其学生在区域，国家和国际会议上介绍他们的研究。这项研究发表在备受推崇的期刊上，并受到进步客户的热切欢迎。这项研究大部分是由研究生进行的。我们的教职员工擅长于他们的工作，在学术指导，研究生培训，研究和外展等方面取得平衡。这是一个生活，学习和繁荣的好环境。
This demand is at all levels of training–BS, MS, and Ph.D. Therefore, the course work and original research in Plant and Environmental Sciences leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy are designed for and have proven to be successful in preparing students for commercial companies, educational institutions, governmental agencies and private production enterprises.<br>The student may emphasize study in several discipline areas described in the following pages.<br>The agronomy section emphasizes sustainable crop production, plant-pest/disease/weed interactions, soil-water-plant relations, crop physiology, and breeding and genetics of cotton, alfalfa, maize and peanuts.<br>The genetics section places special emphasis on genetic basis of agronomic or horticultural traits, applied bioinformatics, gene regulation and genomics.<br>The environmental and soil science sections emphasize environmental quality and ecosystem services, bioremediation, recycling of organic wastes and wastewater, water use efficiency, soil-plant relations, soil-geomorphology and desert ecology, and the fertility, chemistry, physics, and microbiology of soils, including forest soils.<br>The horticulture section emphasizes the creative use of plants by humans, and studies on the technical advancements in the husbandry of most economic commodity groups of fruits, vegetables, or ornamentals as well as managed turf. Emphasis may be in breeding and genetics of chile or onions, plant growth and development, nutrition, dormancy and cold hardiness, plant stress (water and/or salinity) response, fruit and vegetable physiology, forestry, and turfgrass.<br>Most students will be expected to complete a thesis. The research detailed in a thesis should be of a scope and quality to merit publication in a refereed journal. Depending on prior training and experience, a non-thesis option is available subject to approval by a departmental committee. The non-thesis option requires completion of a research project and paper of limited scope. In both the thesis and non-thesis options, suitability of the research project and resulting thesis or paper will be judged by the student's graduate committee. A minor is recommended and may be taken in chemistry, biology, molecular biology, environmental management, applied statistics, toxicology or other areas.