Unit Code: GPB731

Unit Name: Principles of Plant Breeding

Description: eding objectives and important concepts of breeding self-pollinated cross pollinated and vegetatively propagated crops, selection and hybridization techniques of plant breeding, micro and mega-sporogenesis and their importance in plant breeding, apomixes and its significance in plant breeding, Breeding objectives and breeding varieties for various needs, Hybrid development in rice-Two line and three line breeding, CMS, CGMS AND TGMS hybrids, Breeding of important cereals, millets, minor millets, pulses, oilseeds, sugar crops, tuber crops, fibre crops, Special breeding techniques for biotic and abiotic stress resistance and for quality improvements in field crops. Male sterility and self-incompatibility in plant breeding.

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Prerequisite: GPB622

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 1