本教材遵循切合园艺专业特点、结构安排合理、难易程度适中的原则，从总论、设施园艺、生理、栽培、育种、植保、采后以及科研报告撰写等几个方面进行修订，每篇课文后面列出了本课的关键词汇，特别是专业术语词汇；给出的词汇标出了音标和词性，并给出中文和英文解释；新词汇第一次在课文中出现时，用黑体加粗标注；每篇课文后面有练习作业，包括用英语回答问题和汉译英练习两个部分。

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Section 1 Introduction
Lesson 1 Horticultural Education
Lesson 2 Agritourism
Lesson 3 Introduction of Two Vegetable Companies
Section 2 Protected Horticulture
Lesson 4 The History and the Development of Protected Cultivation
Lesson 5 Goals of Greenhouse Climate Control
Lesson 6 The Greenhouse Horticulture Information Model
Lesson 7 Soilless Cultivation
Lesson 8 Plant Factory
Section 3 Physiology of Horticultural Plant
Lesson 9 Crop Production Situations
Lesson 10 Photosynthesis
Lesson 11 Flower Differentiation, Pollination and Fruit Setting
Lesson 12 Low-temperature Effects
Lesson 13 Mineral Nutrients in Horticultural Plants
Section 4 Cultivation of Horticultural Plant
Lesson 14 Soil Properties
Lesson 15 Container Nursery Production
Lesson 16 Greenhouse Tomato Production
Lesson 17 Pruning Mature Trees
Lesson 18 Ornamental Horticulture
Lesson 19 Pollination in the Vegetable Garden
Section 5 Breeding of Horticultural Plant
Lesson 20 History of Plant Tissue Culture
Lesson 21 Biotechnology and Horticulture
Lesson 22 Utilization of Hybrid Vigor
Lesson 23 Molecular Breeding in Plants. Moving into the Mainstream
Section 6 Horticultural Plant Protection
Lesson 24 Biological Pest Control
Lesson 25 Plant Disease
Lesson 26 IPM and LISA
Section 7 Postharvest of Horticultural Plant
Lesson 27 Quality and Harvesting of Horticultural Products
Lesson 28 Horticultural Logistics
Lesson 29 Direct Marketing
Section 8 Paper Writing
Lesson 30 Writing a Research Report
Appendix
Appendix Ⅰ List of Fruit Tree Species in Chinese, Latin and English
Appendix Ⅱ List of Vegetable Species in Chinese, Latin and English
Appendix Ⅲ List of Flower Species in Chinese, Latin and English
Appendix Ⅳ List of Common Diseases and Pests in Fruit Trees
Appendix Ⅴ List of Common Vegetable Diseases and Pests
Appendix Ⅵ Some Glossaries for Description of Quality of Horticultural Crops
Appendix Ⅶ Glossaries