GPB 221 (2+1) FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANT BREEDING
Theory Lecture Outlines
1. Definition, aim, objectives and scope of plant breeding
2. History, development and landmarks in plant breeding, Accomplishments of plant breeding
3. Modes of reproduction - asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction -significance in plant breeding
4. Modes of pollination - classification, self-pollination - mechanisms promoting self-pollination cross- pollination - mechanisms promoting cross-pollination-often cross-pollinated crops
5. Breeding methods and cultivar options in plant breeding
6. Pollination control systems - Self-incompatibility- classification, mechanisms of SI, methods to overcome SI.
7. Male sterility - types, genetic, cytoplasmic and cytoplasmic genetic male sterility, inheritance and maintenance, utilization of male sterile lines in hybrid seed production.
8. Domestication, Acclimatization and introduction.
9. Plant introduction, types, history, plant introduction agencies in India, NBPGR and its activity, Procedure of plant introduction, purpose of plant introduction, genetic erosion.
10. Plant Genetic Resources, conservation In vitro and in vivo, Centres of origin/diversity, Law of parallel variation
11. Genetic methods and breeding methods in self pollinated crosp - Selection, selection intensity, selection differential, heritability and genetic advance
12. Mass selection- procedure, modification of mass selection - merits, demerits and achievements
13. Johannsen’s pure line theory and its concepts and significance - origin of variation in pure lines, characters of pure lines - progeny test, Genetic basis of pure line selection, procedure, merits, demerits and achievements.
14. components of Genetic variation -additive, dominance and epistatic variance, hybridization techniques- aims and objectives, types, procedure / steps involved in hybridization
15. Handling of segregating generations - pedigree method - procedure, modifications, merits, demerits and achievements
16. Bulk method - procedure, merits, demerits and achievements of bulk method
17. Single seed descent method
18. Backcross method of breeding - its requirements and applications - procedure, applications
19. Multiline concept, multiline variety - characteristics, develop ment, achievements
20. Concepts of population genetics and Hardy Weinberg Law - factors affecting equilibrium frequencies in random mating populations.
21. Genetic basis and methods of breeding cross pollinated crops, modes of selection
22. Population improvement methods- Ear to Row method, modified ear to row method, recurrent selection schemes.
23. Heterosis - heterosis and hybrid vigour, luxuriance, heterobeltiosis, brief history, heterosis in cross- pollinated and self-pollinated species - manifestations of heterosis, genetic bases of heterosis - dominance, over dominance and epistasis hypotheses, physiological basis, Biochemical basis, commercial utilization
24. Inbreeding depression - effects of inbreeding, degrees of inbreeding depression, procedure for development of inbred lines and their evaluation and development of hybrids -important steps in production of single and double cross hybrids
25. Synthetics and composites - production procedures - merits, demerits and achievements
26. Methods of breeding for asexually propagated crops, clone, characteristics of asexually propagated crops, characteristics of clones, procedure, advantages and disadvantages,
27. Wide hybridization and prebreeding- production of distant hybrids, techniques for production of distant hybrids - applications of wide hybridization in crop improvement, limitations and achievements
28. Polyploidy in relation to plant breeding- autopolyploids, origin and production, morphological and cytological features of autopolyploids, applications, limitations. Allopolyploids -applications of allopolyploidy in crop improvement, limitations.
29. Mutation breeding - characteristic features, procedure, applications, advantages, limitations and achievements.
30. Breeding for important biotic and abiotic stresses - Disease resistance, insect resistance, Drought, salinity, alkalinity, temperatur e etc.
31. Biotehnological tools - DNA markers, types and Marker assisted selection
32. Intellectual property rights (IPR), patenting, Plant breeder and farmer’s rights, ppvfra etc.
[EBOOK] GPB 221 FUNDAMENTALS OF PLANT BREEDING (2+1) FOR B.Sc. (AGRI.), DR. SOMU. G., DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING, COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE CHAMARAJANAGAR
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