Plant Breeding

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

This course covers below topics; Importance of plant breeding in agricultural production; reproductive systems and fertilization in plants; the importance of plant genetic resources in plant breeding, collection, conservation and evaluation; variation and degree of inheritance; genetic basis of plant breeding, inheritance of qualitative and quantitative characters; The use of incompatibility male infertility in plant breeding; Breeding methods applied to self and foreign fertilized plants; selection breeding, cross-breeding breeding, hybrid breed breeding; hybrid seed production; mutation breeding

Weekly Schedule

1) Definition, history, importance and purpose of breeding
2) Crossing over, mutations, cross-species hybridization, chromosome mutations
3) Variations, the formation mechanisms of inherited and environmental variations, modifications
4) Mitosis, Meiosis, Crossing over
5) Qualitative characters and their inheritance, Quantitative genetics, Inheritance of quantitative characters, Inheritance degree
6) Reproductive systems in plants, pollination and fertilization, incompatibility, infertility
7) Hybridization and applications in plants
8) Breeding methods in self-fertilized plants
9) Breeding methods applied in foreign fertilized plants
10) Breeding of clonal propagating plants
11) Mutation breeding
12) F1 Hybrid breeding technique
13) Tissue culture methods used in plant breeding
14) Recombinant DNA technique and applications
15) Final Exam

Recommended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	50%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	50%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required