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Plant Breeding Overview (HS 590)

5 Weeks, 1 Credit Course

Todd Wehner, Instructor

  • Office: 222 Kilgore Hall
  • Phone: 919.741.8929
  • Email: tcwehner@gmail.com
  • Web: https://cucurbitbreeding.wordpress.ncsu.edu/todd-wehner/
  • Course Schedule
  • Course Syllabus

Resources

  • Reserve Reading
  • Plant Breeding Articles
    • Impacts of International Wheat Breeding Research in the Developing World – 1988-2002 (Lantican et al.)
    • Protecting Crop Genetic Diversity for Food Security (Alcazar)
    • Crop Shortages (Wollinsky)
    • History of Heterosis in Maize (Crow)
    • Decreasing Heterosis in Maize Hybrids (Troyer)
    • Single Gene for Yield Heterosis in Tomato (Krieger et al.)
    • Marker Aided Selection for Quantitative Traits (Bernardo)
    • Maize Oil and Protein (Dudley)
    • Crop Ideotype in Rice Breeding (Peng)
    • Yield of Hybrid Rice (Peng)
    • Stability Analysis (Lin)
    • Plant Breeder’s Rights (by Cambia; author Carol Nottenburg)

Plant Breeding Books (classics)

  • Bailey
  • Davenport
  • Hayes
  • Hayes and Garber
  • Walter
  • Plant Breeding History
  • Glossary (A-K)
  • Glossary (L-Z)

Exercises

  • Exercise 1
  • Exercise 2
  • Exercise 3
  • Exercise 4
  • Exercise 5

Cucurbit Breeding

Dr. Todd Wehner

Department of Horticultural Science
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7609

Phone: 919.741.8929
Email: tcwehner@gmail.com
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