Plant Sciences

The discipline that studies the cultivation, breeding, genetics, ecology, pathology and pest management of field and forage crops, matching CIP series 01.11. Belongs here: a discipline whose subject is the biology, breeding or protection of crop plants at agronomic scale, including the insects, weeds, nematodes and pathogens that affect them. Does not belong here: horticultural crop cultivation, grouped under Applied Horticulture above, and soil biology and chemistry studied for its own sake rather than as a crop-production input, grouped under Soil Sciences below.