SPECIAL PLANT BREEDING
- Course
- PSCT513 - SPECIAL PLANT BREEDING
- Department
- Plant Sciences and Technologies - English - Master
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 0
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
Course Description
In today’s world we face many challenges related to conservation, sustainable use and equitable sharing of benefits derived from the use of plant genetic resources and their associated traditional knowledge as recognized in the Convention on Biological Diversity. Crop diversification and broadening of the genetic base used in breeding programs are part of the conservation and use of landraces. Orphan crops related to neglected and under utilized species, including domesticated, semidomesticated and wild are discussed. Cultivated plants, self pollination, cross pollination, vegetatif propagation and spesific breeding methods in these plants will be discussed. Back crossing and selection techniques will be also introduced in this course.
SPECIAL PLANT BREEDING
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | History of Plant Breeding (Pre and post-Mendelian era); |
| Week 2 | Objectives of plant breeding, characteristics improved by plant breeding; |
| Week 3 | Genetic basis of breeding self- and cross - pollinated crops including mating systems and response to selection - nature of variability, components of variation; |
| Week 4 | Genetic basis of breeding self- and cross - pollinated crops including mating systems and response to selection - nature of variability, components of variation; |
| Week 5 | General and specific combining ability; |
| Week 6 | g. Self-incompatibility and male sterility in crop plants and their commercialexploitation. |
| Week 7 | Pure line theory, pure line selection and mass selection methods; |
| Week 8 | ; Line breeding, pedigree, bulk, backcross, single seed descent and multiline method; |
| Week 9 | Population breeding in self-pollinated crops (diallel selective mating approach). |
| Week 10 | Breeding methods in cross pollinated crops; Population breeding-mass selection and ear-to-row methods; |
| Week 11 | S1 and S2 progeny testing, progeny selection schemes, recurrent selection schemes for intra and inter- population improvement and development of synthetics and composites; |
| Week 12 | Hybrid breeding - genetical and physiological basis of heterosis and inbreeding, production of inbreds, breeding approaches for improvement of inbreds, predicting hybrid performance; seed production of hybrid and their parent varieties/inbreds. |
| Week 13 | Breeding methods in asexually/clonally propagated crops, clonal selection apomixes, clonal selection. |
| Week 14 | Special breeding techniques- Mutation breeding; Breeding for abiotic and biotic stresses. |
| Week 15 | Moelcular Plant Breeding, Speed breeding |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Crop Breeding: Methods and Protocols Volume 1145 of Methods in Molecular Biology Editors Delphine Fleury, Ryan Whitford Publisher Springer New York, 2014
- 02 Advanced molecular plant breeding : meeting the challenge of food security Responsibility edited by D. N. Bharadwaj, PhD. Publication Oakville, ON, Canada ; Waretown, NJ, USA : Apple Academic Press Inc., [2019]
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Program Outcomes
- PCST PÇ1: Develop and deepen knowledge acquired in plant science and technologies based on undergraduate level competencies.
- PCST PÇ2: Understand the interaction between plant science and technologies field and related disciplines.
- PCST PÇ3: Combine and interpret the theoretical and practical knowledge related to horticultural plants with the knowledge, data and findings obtained from different disciplines, to be able to create new knowledge and theories by synthesizing them by using the theoretical and practical knowledge related to horticultural plants in the field of expertise and supporting the current developments with quantitative and qualitative.
- PCST PÇ4: Solve problems by using research methods and solving cause and effect relationships.
- PCST PÇ5: Conduct a study requiring expertise on plant science and technologies independently.
- PCST PÇ6: Develop an analytical approach for solving unpredictable complex problems encountered in applications of plant science and technologies, to design the research process, to produce solutions by taking responsibility and to evaluate and defend the results obtained.
- PCST PÇ7: Lead the plant science and technologies in an environment that requires solving problems.
- PCST PÇ8: Access to resources related to plat science and technologies, benefiting from these resources and self-renewal.
- PCST PÇ9: Transfer his / her studies, developments in his / her field of expertise and research results using oral, written and visual tools.
- PCST PÇ10: Use advanced computer software and information and communication technologies as necessary in relation to plant science and technologies.
- PCST PÇ11: Collect data with scientific methods for solving problems related to plant science and technologies, to be able to control and interpret the collected data by taking into consideration the social, scientific and ethical values.
- PCST PÇ12: Utilize and explain integrated knowledge in plant science and technologies in interdisciplinary studies, communicate it effectively, and critically evaluate the conclusions drawn.
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