PREV

• 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