| Department of Agricultural Sciences | |||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | |||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1 semester | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc MSc level | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | written examination Aid allowed Description of Examination: 13-point scale, internal examiner Dates of Exam: | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures: 1 course module per week Practicals | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | E6, fall According to agreement | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 055411 Plant Breeding 010611 Statistics, Basic Course Plant Breeding, Statistics Basic Course. | ||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||
| The course comprises an extensive treatment of theories for the identification, evaluation, manipulation, conservation and exploitation of genetic variation in both horticultural and agricultural plants. This course provides in-depth understanding of the potential and obligations of plant breeding nationally and internationally as well as the theoretical basis for participation in theme course projects with a genetical dimension. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||
| Main elements of course content: · Biometrical methods in plant breeding. Genetic and environmental components of variance. Heritability, selection theory, inbreeding, and heterosis. · Genotype-by-environment interaction and its importance, as well as analysis of genetic stability. · Planning and managing breeding programmes: decision making, resource allocation, and software for analysis of experiments. · Genetic resources, their conservation, characterisation, and exploitation. Genetic vulnerability of plants species. Importance of in situ and ex situ conservation of genetic resources for production and society. · Biotechnology in plant breeding: Micropropagation, cryopreservation, cell culture, haploids, protoplast fusion, genetic transformation, and molecular markers. · Breeding for resistance to fungi, bacteria, viruses and insects: Genetic variation, types of resistance and selection methods. · Breeding for quality: Criteria in horticultural and agronomic plants. Selection potential. Winter hardiness, drought resistance, cold tolerance, photo-respiration, and the ideotype concept. | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| Approximately half of the students's time is spent preparing and attending lectures. The remaining half of the time is used for excursions, exercises and discussion classes related to the theoretical lectures. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||
| Harding, J., F., Singh & J.N.M. Mol (1995): Genetics and breeding of ornamental species. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 429 pp. Hayward, M., I. Romagosa & N.O. Bosemark (1993): Plant breeding - Principles and prospects. Chapman & Hall, 720 pp. Ford-Lloyd, B. & M. Jackson (1986): Plant genetic resources: An introduction to their conservation and use. Edward Arnold, 152 pp. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Sven Bode Andersen, sba@life.ku.dk, Department of Agricultural Sciences/Plant and Soil Science, Phone: 35333444 | |||||||||||||||
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| Study Committee AHJ | |||||||||||||||
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