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Riverside: Departments
Vegetable Crops
The Department of Vegetable Crops was established
within the Citrus Experiment Station on the Riverside campus (as
a section of the Davis department) on September 1, 1955 under the
direction of Oscar A. Lorenz. Charged with the responsibility of
providing increased research support to the vegetable growers of
southern California, the department became recognized for notable
contributions to the science of agriculture, particularly in the
area of mineral nutrition of vegetables.
The department expanded from three staff positions
(originally transferred from Davis) to eight in 1964. Research programs
in soil physics, weed control, genetics, mineral nutrition, and
growth physiology of vegetables, providing basic information of
great benefit to the vegetable growers, were developed during this
period.
When the College of Agriculture was established
on the Riverside campus in the fall of 1961, the department participated
in the interdepartmental majors leading to the B.S. degree in agricultural
science, the M.S. degree in plant science (with fields of interests
in vegetable crops), and the Ph.D. degree in plant science with
an area specialization either in plant physiology or genetics. The
only undergraduate student in the College of Agriculture during
its first semester of operation was enrolled with a field of interest
in vegetable crops. Department staff members participated in these
programs by teaching courses in the Departments of Life Sciences,
Horticultural Sciences, and Vegetable Crops. In 1965, one undergraduate
and eight graduate students in the department were enrolled in these
programs. source
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