Department of Horticultural Sciences

About


The Department of Horticultural Sciences exists to improve the quality of life through teaching, research, and extension programs related to the aesthetic disciplines of horticulture and the production of high quality, healthful fruits, vegetables, medicinal plants and ornamental plants

Majors and Programs

  • Horticultural sciences (B.Sc.)

    Horticultural sciences (B.Sc.)
  • Horticultural sciences (M.A)

    Horticultural sciences (M.A)
  • Horticultural sciences (Ph.D)

    Horticultural sciences (Ph.D)

Facilities and Equipment

  • Teaching

    Understanding and learning horticultural knowledge and applying it to sustainable development depends not only on the knowledge itself, but also on how it is taught and studied. Here at the University of Guilan, through our research and teaching, we strive for a critical and ethical approach to the natural environment and society's relationship with it. Teaching methods include fieldwork, lectures, seminars, small-group learning, individual tutorials and group work.
  • Research

    Our faculty members are researchers and authors with expertise in various horticultural crop. They are often young researchers familiar with new technologies who are interested in using their knowledge and expertise in teaching horticulture.

    Research Groups
    •    Vegetable breeding
    •    Kiwifruit society
    •    Tissue culture
    •    Medicinal plant

    Main Research
    •    Vegetable breeding,
    •    Kiwifruit breeding,
    •    Tissue culture

     
  • Publication

    Novel research in Horticultural sciences (NRHS)

    Novel research in Horticultural sciences (NRHS) has been an academic journal of the Department of Horticultural sciences at the University of Guilan, since 2022. The NRHS is a scientific journal for the dissemination of both theoretical and applied research. It publishes papers from across the entire subject of horticultural related issues, with particular reference to novel research in horticultural crop production, physiology and breeding.

     
     

Academic Members

Jamal-Ali Olfati, Ph.D.
Head of the Department
Associate Professor of Horticultural Crop Breeding
 
Research interests:

Crop breeding 
Vegetable Production
Soilless culture
Mushroom cultivation and breeding
 
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Abdollah Hatamzadeh, Ph.D.
Professor
Plant Biochemistry

Research interests:

Ornamental Plant production 
Plant physiology


 
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Moazzam Hassanpour Assil, Ph.D.
Professor
Post-Harvest Physiology

Research interests:
Ornamental Plant physiology 
Horticultural crop post-harvest physiology


 
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Yousef Hamidoghli, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research interests:

Horticultural crop Breeding
Tissue culture
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Mahmoud Ghasemnezhad, Ph.D.
Professor
Post-Harvest Physiology

Research interests:
•    Post-Harvest Physiology
•    Kiwifruit production

 
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Davoud Bakhshi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Pomology

Research interests:

Fruits physiology
Medicinal plant production 

 
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Hedayat Zakizadeh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ornamental plant breeding

Research interests:
Tissue culture
Ornamental plants production
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Amir Sahraroo, Ph.D.
Assistant  Professor
Plant Biotechnology

Research interests:
Tissue culture
Medicinal plant production 
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Parvaneh Taqidoost, M.A
Administrative assistant
 
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Ali Kholghi, Ph.D.
Administrative assistant
 
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Faeqeh Saliqehdar, M.A
Administrative assistant
 
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