Plant Breeding Overview (HS 521)

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Lecture 14 – Exam

1. Introduction
   1. Breeding Objectives
   2. Germplasm Resources
   3. Angiosperm Reproduction
2. Breeding Cross-Pollinated Crops
   1. Populations, Inbreds, Hybrids
   2. Male Sterility
   3. Recurrent Selection
   4. Synthetic Cultivars
3. Breeding Self-Pollinated Crops
   1. Bulk Breeding and Competition
   2. Pedigree Breeding and Parent Choice
   3. Backcross Breeding and Multilines
4. Breeding Clonal Crops
   1. Polyploidy
   2. Interspecific Hybridization
   3. Breeding Clonal Crops
   4. Mutation Breeding
5. Special Topics
   1. Disease, Insect and Stress Resistance
   2. Selection Index
   3. Genotype x Environment
   4. Intellectual Property
   5. Project Management