Week 15, Synthetic and composite populations, Breeding clonally propagated crops, selfing and crossing in Maize
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
