Objective of the Course

Vegetables are considered as the protective food items, full of nutrition. Keeping in view the importance of vegetable crops this graduate level course was included in plant breeding and genetics. It mainly focuses on the importance and classification of the different season’s vegetable crops. Understanding the breeding methods of vegetable crops will enable the students to be familiarize with the constraints in vegetable breeding and hybridization programs. This course will also train the students about all possible improvement strategies in vegetables. Understanding the mechanism of hybrid seed production in vegetables as well as off season vegetable production. The major issue in vegetable breeding is for quality, biotic and abiotic stresses and improvement in shelf-life have revolutionized the vegetable production industry. At the end of this course students will be able to understand the significance and role of innovative tools in vegetable improvement. Students will learn selfing and crossing techniques of important vegetable crops.