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Language: English

Pages: 195

Author: TNAU

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Course Outline: Principles of Plant Breeding(GPBR-111)

1. Aims and objectives of Plant Breeding
2. Modes of Reproduction
3. Apomixis – classification and significance in plant breeding
4. Modes of Pollination
5. Classification of plants
6. Botanical description and floral biology
7. Maize – Zea mays (2n – 20)
8. Small Millets
9. Pulses
10. Oil Seeds
11. Cotton
12. Emasculation and Pollination Techniques
13. Maize
14. Red gram
15. Sugarcane
16. Methods of breeding – introduction and acclimatization
17. Hybridization – Aims, objectives and types of hybridization
18. Back cross method and various modified methods
19. (1) Incompatibility and male sterility and their utilization in crop improvement
20. (2) Incompatibility and male sterility and their utilization in crop improvement
21. Heterosis, inbreeding depression, various theories of Heterosis
22. Population improvement programmes, recurrent selection, synthetics and composites
23. Hybrids
24. Clonal selection
25. Hybridization
26. Mutation Breeding
27. Procedure for Mutatuion breeding
28. Application of Mutatuion breeding
29. (1) Ploidy breeding
30. (2) Ploidy breeding

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