Plant Breeding Overview (HS 521)

Course Schedule

Fall 2012 Schedule

Plant Breeding Overview (HS 521)

Lec. Sub. Topic Lecturer Month Date Day Exercise
1 I. Plant breeding objectives / Reproduction Wehner Oct. 26 F
2 Biogeography & Germplasm resources 29 M 1
3 II. Population improvement / Recurrent selection 31 W
4 Gain from selection / Inbred extraction Nov. 2 F
5 Hybrid testing / Male sterility / Synthetics 5 M 2
6 III. Bulk / Competition 7 W
7 Pedigree / Parent choice 9 F
8 Backcross / Multilines 12 M 3
9 IV. Polyploidy / Interspecific hybridization 14 W
10 Breeding clonals / Mutation breeding 16 F 4
11 V. Disease, insect, stress resistance 19 M
12 Selection index / Genotype x environment 26 M 5
13 Intellectual property / Management / Overview 28 W
14 Exam 30 F Final