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AGRONOMY 896 Advanced Plant Breeding Topics |
DATES: March 3 - April 8, 2010 | Call Number: 8541 |
| URL: http://my.unl.edu | |||
Credits: One graduate credit. The course is also offered for noncredit professional development and CEU credit. (Interested in taking additional crop breeding classes for noncredit or CEU credit? For more information, please contact Cathy Dickinson at cdickinson2@unl.edu, 402.472.1730.)
| Registration: | To register for noncredit professional development using your credit card, please call (800) 328-2851 |
| Click here to register for noncredit professional development, using mail payment | |
| Click here for academic credit |
Description: This course focuses on a different graduate-level plant breeding topic each year. For Spring 2010, the topic will be heterosis:
- Concept of heterosis
- Genetic hypotheses of heterosis
- Quantitative genetic analyses of heterosis
- From structure to function
- New tools for the study of heterosis
- Prediction of heterosis and hybrid performance
- Heterotic groups and organization of germplasm
- Maize breeding as an example of breeding for heterosis
- Mechanisms for making hybrids
Instructor: Dr. Thomas Hoegemeyer
Delivery: Students have the option of attending a resident class on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus or participating entirely via the Internet/Blackboard. The resident class section, which will be available "live" via the Internet for distance students, will meet on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4:00-5:20 p.m. in 272 Plant Sciences Hall on the UNL East Campus in Lincoln, Nebraska. A Web site for the course will be available 24-hours-a-day at http://my.unl.edu.
Requirements: Internet access and e-mail
Prerequisites: Individuals taking the course for academic credit must be enrolled in UNL's Graduate School and have completed AGRO 815A, 815B and 815D, or their equivalent. Prior completion of AGRO 931 (Population Genetics) and Statistics 801 and 802 is also recommended. For individuals taking the course for noncredit or CEU-credit, completion of AGRO 815A, 815B and 815D is recommended.
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1. Principles of Plant Genetics and Breeding, by George Acquaah. |
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Purchase the Texts: You can obtain both books from Amazon.com.
Tuition: For information on tuition and fees, please click on the Registration links above.
Who It's For: Among those who would benefit from taking this course are:
- Graduate students
- Certified professional agronomists and crop consultants
- Seed industry personnel
- Food industry personnel
- Extension educators
- Producers
- Science and vocational agriculture teachers
- Plant hobbyists
