HORT3040K Temperate Fruit Crops

Academic Year 2023/2024

The lectures cover: Top fruit and soft fruit, apple orchard site requirements, nutritional status, pest and disease management. Postharvest practices cover handling, packaging, transportation and storage of produce. Postharvest physiology covers the need for pre-cooling to remove field heat, refrigeration, controlled atmosphere storage, ethylene inhibition and physiological disorders.

There will be continuous assessment at unspecified intervals throughout the duration of the trimester.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Students will learn:
The physiological background to growing and storing commercial fruit crops;
How root growth, shoot growth, flowering and fruiting are controlled and interact with each other;
Management techniques that allow manipulation of plant physiology (in controlled atmospheres and hypobaric storage);
Manipulation and control of storage atmospheres;
Practical management skills;
Measurement of quality parameters in fruits;
Application of EU quality standards.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

20
Specified Learning Activities

50
Autonomous Student Learning

50
Total

120
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Includes self assessment 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Continuous Assessment: Group project Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No

40
Journal: Reflective learning journal Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No

10
Examination: Terminal Examination 1 hour End of Trimester Exam No Graded Yes

50

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Dr Caroline Elliott-Kingston Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 

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