Doctor of Horticulture at Cape Peninsula University of Technology

The qualification aims to produce graduates who can innovatively develop and sustain the Horticulture Industry with personal intellectual growth and the ability to recognise the importance of research for gainful economic activity and contributions to society. The qualification further aims in developing a research capacity that will stimulate growth in the numbers of Doctorate students and specialist scientists between universities, the Horticulture Industry and related economic sectors on a national, continental and global level. The qualification will take advantage of the indigenous plant resources so as to focus on South African species, including Traditional Medicinal Plants with regards to, flower development, timing of flowering, vernalization, stabilisation of flower pigments, juvenile to-mature transition in rooting and flowering abilities, resistance mechanisms to biotic and abiotic stresses, manipulation of growth parameters of horticultural crops, development and breeding of ornamental cultivars, etc. Offering type listed: FULL-TIME: BELLVILLE CAMPUS.

Faculty: Faculty of Applied Sciences  |  Department: Horticultural Sciences  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

What you will study

Subjects listed on the programme page include Research Project & Dissertation.

Career pathways

Graduates may find work locally and internationally in production nurseries, garden centres, landscape maintenance enterprises, parastatals and municipal metropoles. In addition, for those graduates with a desire to do research, the South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Agricultural Research Council and commercial plant development enterprises, are important employers. The programme will be hugely instrumental in producing graduates for the Green Industries, Municipalities, Botanical Gardens, Parks and Forest and Agriculture Departments, Departments of Public Works, Transport and Eskom. The need to develop a postgraduate programme such as the Doctorate of Horticulture has become critically important in advancing technology, especially indigenous knowledge and plant breeding in the sector.

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