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PLBG-5202, Introductory Plant Breeding 3 (2-1)
Course Introduction, Timetable and key dates

Course Introduction, Timetable and key dates

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Course Material
  • Course Introduction, Timetable and key dates
  • Week 1, 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
  • Week 2, Strategy of Plant Breeding, Variation and its types, Structural modification in flowers,
  • Week 3, Sources of hereditary variations, Artificial creation of variability, Hybridization, Mode of Pollination in flowers
  • Week 4, Mutation, Heteroploidy, Chromosome number of Important crop plants
  • Week 5, Aneuploidy, Genetic engineering, selfing and crossing techniques in wheat
  • Week 6, Somaclonal Variation, Variety/cultivar, Selfing and crossing in Barley
  • Week 7, Breeding self-pollinated crops: introduction, Mass selection method, Pure line selection, Field demonstration
  • Week 8, Course discussion, Selection methods after Hybridization pedigree method, Selfing and crossing in cotton
  • Week 10, Selection methods after Hybridization, Bulk method, Single seed Descent Method, Double haploid method, Field crossing
  • Week 11, Back cross method, Multiline breeding, variety blend, selfing and crossing in Oat
  • Week 12, Breeding cross-pollinated crops: introduction, Mass and recurrent selection, selfing and crossing in sorghum
  • Week 13, Half sib and Full sib selection, Development and evaluation of inbred lines, selfing and crossing in rice
  • Week 14, Development of hybrid and synthetic variety, Field cross
  • Week 15, Synthetic and composite populations, Breeding clonally propagated crops, selfing and crossing in Maize
  • Week 16, Biotechnology and Plant breeding, Synchronization of flowering
  • Week 17, Course discussion
  • Week 18, Course discussion
  • Chapters 18
  • Department College of Agriculture
  • Teacher Dr. Usman Saleem
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