Department of Horticultural Sciences
Department website: http://hortsciences.tamu.edu/
Head: A. Dhingra
Graduate Advisor: P. Klein
The graduate programs of the Department of Horticultural Sciences are designed to prepare individuals for careers in research, teaching, extension and industry. Research-oriented programs in the areas of fruit/nut/vegetable breeding, production and processing; ornamental horticulture/nursery crops; post-harvest physiology; greenhouse/floriculture production, marketing and economics; plant-microbe interactions; viticulture/enology; genetics/genomics; and plant physiology are available to students. Supporting work may be required in several related fields such as chemistry, biology, plant pathology, plant physiology, entomology, soils, genetics, nutrition and agricultural engineering. The specific objective of the individual student will guide his or her committee in the choice of courses from the departments mentioned above and others in special cases. More information on specific programs and faculty can be found at http://hortsciences.tamu.edu/graduate-programs/.
Programs of study leading to the Master of Agriculture, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees are available.
Arnold, Michael A, Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, North Carolina State University, 1990
Burgner, Gerald, Lecturer
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2019
MLA, Louisiana State University, 1994
Byrne, David H, Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, Cornell University, 1980
Cisneros-Zevallos, Luis A, Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, University of California at Davis, 1998
Crosby, Kevin M, Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, Texas A&M University, 1999
Dhingra, Amit, Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, University of Delhi, 2002
Hall Jr, Charles R, Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, Mississippi State University, 1988
Hartmann, Timothy, Assistant Lecturer
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2020
Klein, Patricia E, Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, Texas A&M University, 1989
Koiwa, Hisashi, Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, Kyoto University, 1996
Mahal, Navreet Kaur, Lecturer
Horticultural Sciences
DAG, Iowa State University, 2018
McKinley Jr, William J, Instructional Associate Professor
Horticultural Sciences
MAG, Texas A&M University, 1983
Nesbitt, Monte, Assistant Lecturer
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2020
Patil, Bhimanagouda, Regents Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, Texas A&M University, 1994
Pierson, Elizabeth A, Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, Washington State University, 1988
Reed, David W, Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, Cornell University, 1979
Riera-Lizarazu, Oscar, Associate Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, University of Minnesota, 1996
Vales, Maria Isabel, Associate Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, University of Vigo, Spain, 1996
Zhen, Shuyang, Assistant Professor
Horticultural Sciences
PHD, University of Georgia, 2017