Plant Breeding Methods (CS, HS 541)

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Lecture Outline 42 – PLANT BREEDING OVERVIEW

  1. Assignments
  2. Breeding Clonal Crops
  3. Plant Breeding Overview
  4. Requirements for Success
    1. Tips for Plant Breeders
    2. Review Exercise 10
    3. Review Preliminary Quiz
  5. Exam IV Topics (100 points)
    1. Aneuploidy (15 points)
    2. Autopolyploidy (15 points)
    3. Allopolyploidy (15 points)
    4. Interspecific Hybridization (15 points)
    5. Breeding Asexually-Propagated Crops (20 points)
    6. Breeding Large Perennials (20 points)
  6. Final Exam Topics (200 points)
    1. Breeding Objectives (10 points)
    2. Germplasm Resources (15 points)
    3. Angiosperm Reproduction (5 points)
    4. Population Genetics (5 points)
    5. Quantitative Genetics (15 points)
    6. Inbreeding/Heterosis (10 points)
    7. Populations/Inbreds/Hybrids (15 points)
    8. Genetic Control of Pollen (15 points)
    9. Recurrent Selection/Gain (10 points)
    10. Synthetics (10 points)
    11. Bulk/Pedigree/Backcross breeding (25 points)
    12. Mutation breeding (15 points)
    13. Intellectual Property Rights/Biotechnology (5 points)
    14. Project Management/Mechanization (5 points)
    15. Genotype x Environment (10 points)
    16. Index selection (10 points)
    17. Disease/Arthropod/Stress resistance (20 points)

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Exercise 10

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