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• Distribution of teaching schedule and discussion about the course contents
• The concept of plant breeding, Role of plant breeding in crop improvement
• Flower and various parts of typical flower (P)
• Reproductive systems in major crop plants
• Strategy of plant breeding
• Structural modifications in flowers (P)
• Variation and its types
• Sources of hereditary variation
• Mode of pollination in flowers (P)
• Artificial creation of variability Hybridization
• Mutation
• Chromosome number of important crop plants (P)
• Heteroploidy
• Aneuploidy
• Selfing and Crossing in wheat (P)
• Genetic Engineering
• Somaclonal Variation
• Selfing and crossing techniques in Barley (P)
• Variety/ Cultivar
• Breeding self-pollinated crops: introduction, Mass selection method,
• Field Demonstration (P)
• Pure line selection
• Course discussion
• Selfing and crossing techniques in Cotton (P)
• Selection methods after Hybridization pedigree method,
• Selection methods after Hybridization, Bulk method
• Field Crossing (P)
• Single seed Descent Method, Double haploid method
• Backcross method
• Selfing and crossing techniques in Oats (P)
• Multiline Breeding and Variety Blend
• Breeding cross-pollinated crops: introduction
• Selfing and crossing techniques in Sorghum (P)
• Mass and recurrent selection
• Half Sib and Full Sib selection
• Selfing and crossing techniques in rice (P)
• Development and evaluation of inbred lines
• Development of hybrids
• FIELD CROSS (P)
• Development of synthetic variety,
• Synthetic and composite populations
• Selfing and crossing techniques in maize and millet (P)
• Breeding Clonally Propagated Crops,
• Biotechnology and plant breeding
• Synchronization of Flowering (P)
• Course discussion
• Course discussion
• Course discussion (P)