Education Information System

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
The Agrıculture And Breedıng Of Forage Crops	TB542		3 + 0	3.0	8.0

Prerequisites

None

Language of Instruction	Turkish
Course Level	Graduate
Course Type
Mode of delivery	Face to face
Course Coordinator
Instructors	Fikret BUDAK
Assistants
Goals	The growing methods of forage crops, the purposes of forage breeding, genetic variability and gen centre, natural selection, pollination and fertilization of forage crops, plant breeding methods as introduction, selection, crossing, senthytetic variety, poliploidi and mutation for getting the new forage varieties applied self- and cross pollinated forages.
Course Content
Learning Outcomes	- To learn breeding purposes on forages - To learn forage breeding systems - The breeding methods and how to use tem on forages.

Week	Topics	Learning Methods
1. Week	The forage production in the world and Turkey	Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Other Activities Visual Presentation Verbal Expression Research
2. Week	The growth technics of forages	Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Other Activities Visual Presentation Verbal Expression Research
3. Week	Genetic diversity and gene centers in forage crops	Preparation, After Class Study Research Other Activities Visual Presentation Verbal Expression Course Hours
4. Week	The pollination and fertilization of forages	Other Activities Visual Presentation Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Verbal Expression Research
5. Week	The pollination and fertilization of forages	Visual Presentation Verbal Expression Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Other Activities Research
6. Week	The hybridization of forages	Verbal Expression Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Other Activities Visual Presentation Research
7. Week	The self-pollunation of forages, the main goals of forage breedings	Visual Presentation Verbal Expression Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Other Activities
8. Week	Midterm
9. Week	The breeding methods of foreign-pollination forages (Introduction, selection, mass selection, recurrent selection)	Preparation, After Class Study Verbal Expression Visual Presentation Course Hours Research Other Activities
10. Week	The breeding methods of foreign-pollination forages (Backcross, synthetic variety, hybridization)	Other Activities Verbal Expression Course Hours Research Preparation, After Class Study Visual Presentation
11. Week	The breeding methods of foreign-pollination forages (Poliploidi and mutation)	Other Activities Visual Presentation Course Hours Preparation, After Class Study Research Verbal Expression
12. Week	The breeding methods of self-pollination of forage crops (Introduction and self-selection)	Preparation, After Class Study Research Other Activities Visual Presentation Course Hours Verbal Expression
13. Week	The breeding methods of self-pollination of forage crops (mass selection and hybridization)	Preparation, After Class Study Research Visual Presentation Verbal Expression Course Hours Other Activities
14. Week	The difficulties of forage breeding.	Preparation, After Class Study Other Activities Visual Presentation Verbal Expression Course Hours Research

Elçi, Ş., 2005. Baklagil ve Buğdaygil Yem Bitkileri. T.C. Tarım ve Köyişleri Bakanlığı Yayınları. Manga, İ., Acar, Z., Ayan, İ., 1995. Baklagil Yem Bitkileri. Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi. Ders Notu: No, 7. Açıkgöz, E., Yem Bitkileri.2001 Uludağ Üniversitesi, Ziraat Fakültesi, Tarla Bitkileri Bölümü. Uludağ Üniversitesi Güçlendirme Vakfı Yayın No:182. Avcıoğlu, R., Hatipoğlu, R., Karadağ, Y. 2009. Yem Bitkileri. T.c. Tarım ve Köyişleri Bakanlığı, Tarımsal Üretim ve Geliştirme Genel Müdürlüğü. Gençkan, M. S., 1983. Yem Bitkileri Tarımı. Ege üniversitesi, Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları No:467. Heath, M.E., Barnes, R.F., Metcalfe, D.S., 1985. Forages. The Science of Grassland Agriculture. Iowa State University Press.

Program Requirements	Contribution Level	DK1	DK2	DK3	Measurement Method
PY1	4	4	4	4	-
PY2	5	5	5	5	-
PY3	3	3	3	3	-
PY4	5	5	5	5	-
PY5	4	4	4	4	-
PY6	5	5	5	5	-
PY7	3	3	3	3	-
PY8	3	3	3	3	-
PY9	5	5	5	5	-
PY11	3	3	3	3	-

*DK = Course's Contrubution.

	0	1	2	3	4	5
Course's Level of contribution	None	Very Low	Low	Fair	High	Very High
Method of assessment/evaluation		Written exam	Oral Exams	Assignment/Project	Laboratory work	Presentation/Seminar

Event	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Hours	3	14	42
Preparation, After Class Study	3	14	42
Research	2	14	28
Other Activities	2	11	22
Visual Presentation	14	2	28
Verbal Expression	14	1	14
Midterm 1	1	14	14
Final	1	14	14
Total Workload			204
ECTS Credit of the Course			25.5 8.0