Education - Institute of Horticultural Science

Our Degree Programmes

  • BSc in Horticultural Engineering – full-time and part-time
  • MSc in Horticultural Engineering – full-time and part-time
  • Postgraduate Specialist Training in Horticultural Engineering
  • Postgraduate Specialist Training in Horticultural Expertise

Our Teaching Activity in Other Degree Programmes

  • BSc in Agricultural Engineering – full-time and part-time
  • BSc in Precision Agricultural Engineering – full-time
  • MSc in Agricultural Water Management Engineering – full-time and part-time
  • BSc in Agri-Digitalization and Business – full-time
  • BSc in Rural Development Agricultural Engineering – full-time and part-time (Debrecen, Oradea, Kisvárda)
  • MSc in Plant Protection – full-time
  • One-tier MSc in Agricultural Engineering
  • Horticultural Specialization within the one-tier MSc in Agricultural Engineering

Adult Education Courses

  • Basic Pruning Course
  • Advanced Pruning Course
  • Seedling Raising Course
  • Environmentally Friendly Plant Protection in Home Gardens
  • Design and Maintenance of Ornamental Gardens Course

Thesis and Dissertation Topics

Fruit Growing Working Group

  • Application possibilities of hormonal and caustic fruit thinning products in intensive apple orchards
  • Evaluation of rootstock effects on the growth and fruiting characteristics of scion cultivars
  • Performance evaluation of new apple cultivars in intensive orchards
  • Effects of different pruning techniques on various apple cultivars
  • Evaluation of the effectiveness of biostimulant products in various fruit crops
  • Possibilities for improving cultivar use in fruit production
  • Comparative analysis of cultivation systems in various fruit species
  • Possibilities of cultivating special, niche-expanding fruit species in Hungary
  • Investigating growth regulation techniques in fruit tree nursery production
  • Comparative study of environmentally friendly (integrated and organic) cultivation and plant protection systems in horticulture
  • Relationship between vegetative and generative traits of fruit cultivars and tree health
  • Correlation of phytotechnical practices and plant protection in fruit production
  • Spatiotemporal analysis of fruit disease outbreaks
  • Relationship between yield quantity and quality and plant protection in fruit species
  • Spatiotemporal analysis of plant diseases and pests in organic horticultural systems
  • Evaluation of the effectiveness of plant protection forecasting methods in horticultural crops
  • Assessment of the effectiveness of integrated plant protection techniques in horticultural crops

Vegetable Production Working Group

  • Evaluation of economic traits of different sweet potato varieties
  • Effects of vermicompost applied in degraded soil conditions in unheated greenhouses on soil and plant health using eggplant as indicator crop
  • Effect of different vermicompost doses on quality and quantity parameters of indeterminate tomatoes
  • Impact of climate change on open-field cauliflower production
  • Investigating options for improving growing media in greenhouse tomato production
  • Improving moisture retention of peat-based growing media used in seedling production

Viticulture and Oenology Working Group

  • Effect of different grape rootstocks on the scion
  • Cultivation and oenological evaluation of disease-resistant grape cultivars
  • Genotyping of grape cultivars
  • Studies on winemaking technologies
  • Cultivation and quality evaluation of table grape cultivars
  • Development possibilities of table grape cultivation techniques
  • Improvement of Kékfrankos wine quality using phytotechnical practices
  • Historical and current relationship between the city of Debrecen and the Érmellék Wine Region

Ornamental Plant Production and Green Space Management Working Group

  • Changes in the cultivar range of a given ornamental species over the past decades (breeding methods, criteria, regulations, organizations)
  • Woody ornamental plants for cut flowers
  • Investigation of summer defoliation in specific tree species and its causes
  • Plant protection challenges and possibilities in public spaces
  • Protected trees and tree rows in Debrecen (or other municipalities)
  • Effects of climate change on species and cultivar selection for urban tree planting and their maintenance (post-planting treatments, use of watering bags)
  • Evaluation and use of Heuchera (Coral Bells) cultivars in plantings and green walls
  • The importance of biodiversity gardens
  • Direct sowing flower beds
  • Alternatives to Thuja species
  • Edible ornamental plants
  • Multi-level flower beds
  • Current challenges in ornamental plant usage
  • Blade hedges and fence panels
  • Assessment of shading capacity
  • Flowering dynamics of Hungarian-bred annuals compared with historical data
  • Cultivation of domestic and foreign ornamental cultivars with higher tolerance to extreme urban climates using plant conditioners
  • Comparison of conventional and in vitro micropropagation technologies for herbaceous ornamental plants
  • Effects of photoperiod and light intensity on propagation and cultivation of ornamental plants
  • Evaluation of different growing media mixtures for propagation and potted/containerized cultivation of ornamental crops
  • Evaluation of growth regulation techniques in annual ornamental plant production
  • Applicability of different hydroponic cultivation systems in ornamental plant production
  • Evaluation and application of ornamental grasses for assortment diversification
  • Current state of ornamental plant production and trade globally, in the EU, and in Hungary
  • Economic evaluation of a selected horticultural enterprise and its ornamental plant production activities
  • Changes in sales methods of ornamental plants over the past decades

Horticultural Economics Working Group

  • Economic analysis and planning of agricultural enterprises
  • Value chain analysis of agricultural sectors
  • Economically oriented evaluation of horticultural sectors
  • Business planning for horticultural enterprises
  • Profitability analysis of agricultural and food industry investments
  • Farm-level economic evaluation of processed fruit and vegetable products
  • Market analysis of fruit and vegetable supply chains
  • Economic evaluation at the operational level of fruit and vegetable processing companies
  • Production background of raw materials used in processed fruit and vegetable products
  • Farm-level economic analysis of fruit production sectors within agricultural enterprises
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