植物科学家与食物，纤维，燃料，花卉，药物，城市森林，土壤健康，植物害虫和我们的自然环境一起工作，从而维持并改善了我们当前和未来的世界。植物科学专业的学生学习生物学，植物形态与生理学，化学，昆虫学，物理学，土壤和水科学，植物鉴定，植物病理学，植物繁殖和环境园艺。为了应对诸如气候变化和人口增长等挑战，植物育种和遗传学在增强世界未来的食物，纤维和燃料供应方面发挥着至关重要的作用。学生将在遗传学和分子遗传学，植物过程和功能，植物胁迫的类型和原因等方面获得扎实的基础，并学习如何将其用于改善作物和保存遗传资源。现代植
Plant scientists sustain and improve our current and future world as they work in careers connected to foods, fibers, fuels, pharmaceuticals, ornamental plants, managed landscapes, and native ecosystems. Students study biology, genetics and biotechnology, ecology, plant physiology, pests and diseases, and sustainable agriculture. Plant Science students develop an interdisciplinary perspective on the science of plant production and its applications for managing plants in human and natural systems. <br>The plant science degree provides students with an interdisciplinary perspective on the science of plant production and its applications for managing plants in human and natural systems. Students work with faculty advisors to craft a plan of study that helps them gain expertise in a wide array of potential topics, such as sustainable and organic crop production, plant breeding, and genetics, biotechnology, greenhouse and landscape industries, native plant conservation, plant health, and protection, soil management and productivity, and turfgrass. <br>This major is offered to both incoming freshmen as well as transfer students who have the appropriate credentials through the statewide programs at Gainesville's main campus, the Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, the Mid-Florida Research and Education Center in Apopka, or the West Florida Research and Education Center in Milton.