PLSCI 7160

Perspectives in Plant Breeding Strategies

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Emphasizes critical discussion and evaluation of selected benchmark papers and current literature. Reviews and discusses conventional and molecular selection techniques and breeding objectives, methods, and strategies for both self- and cross-pollinated crops. Requires extensive outside reading. Grades are based on four papers demonstrating creative thinking and analysis of plant breeding concepts.

Prerequisites PLSCI 4030.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2023SP, 2021SP, 2019SP

Outcomes

• Convey to professional and lay audiences, orally and in writing, advanced concepts relating to strategies for crop improvement.
• Explain the fundamental concepts that underlie a well designed breeding program to improve both quantitative and qualitative traits in plant.
• Articulate a vision for the future trends that will transform plant breeding in the coming decade.
• Describe the central role that crop improvement plays in global food security, health and well-being.

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