Course Information

Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
Basic Principles of Plant Breeding TB301 5. Semester 2 + 0 2.0 3.0
Prerequisites None
Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Undergraduate
Course Type
Mode of delivery Face to face
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. Fikret BUDAK
Instructor(s) Fikret BUDAK
Assistants
Goals The aims of this course are to teach genetic principals and methods of plant breeding, to give knowledge and skills for crop improvement.
Course Content Genetic resources and to promote the importance of adaptability to different genetic resources for selection will be applied to achieve higher efficiency and quality of new genotypes, hybridization, hybrid varieties breeding.
Learning Outcomes - explain the importance of field crop breeding to increase yield, the evolution of crop plants, origins of crop plants, flowering and pollination biology crop plants
- elucidate new cultivars for special environments
- elucidate basic genetic principal of crop plants, and hybridization techniques of crop plants
- explain genetic diversity after crossing, breeding objectives of crop plants, developing resistance crops to biotic and abiotic stress
Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Learning Methods
1. Week History of plant breeding, importance and aims of plant breeding, effects of plant breeding on plant production Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
2. Week Reproduction systems of plants, breeding techiques, flower morphology, pollination and fertilisation, cell divitions, fertilizations of field crops Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
3. Week Genetic and stogenetic principals of plant breeding, variation in plants, principal of inheritance, inheritance of simple characters, dihybrid crosses and their inheritance, allele gen interactions, non allelic gene interactions Verbal Expression Course Hours Visual Presentation
4. Week Linkage, quantitative inheritance, heritability Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
5. Week Hetorosis and its importance in plant breeding, genetic explanation of heterosis and use in plant breeding Visual Presentation Course Hours Verbal Expression
6. Week Incompatibility, infertility. Genetic male infertility, stoplasmic infertility, genetic-stoplasmic infertility, their importance in plant breeding Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
7. Week Breeding methods for self pollinating crops. Selection and hybridization Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
8. Week Midterm Examination
9. Week Breeding methods for cross pollinating crops. Selection, hybridization and synthetic cultivars Verbal Expression Course Hours Visual Presentation
10. Week Breeding methods for both self and cross pollinating crops. Single seed descent, early generation test Visual Presentation Course Hours Verbal Expression
11. Week Breeding methods for both self and cross pollinating crops. Mutation breeding and polyploidy Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
12. Week Resistance, tolerance and their inheritance Visual Presentation Course Hours Verbal Expression
13. Week Developing disease and pest resistance crops Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
14. Week Developing pest resistance crops and developing stress resistance crops Course Hours Visual Presentation Field Work
Recommended Sources
1. Şehirali, S. ve M. Özgen, 2006. “Bitki Islahı” Ders Kitabı, A.Ü. Ziraat Fakültesi Yayınları, Anakara Üniversitesi Matbaası, Ankara. 2. Bitki Islahı, Prof. Dr. İbrahim Genç, Prof. Dr.Tacettin Yağbasanlar, Çukurova Üniversitesi Ders Kitapları No:13 3. principals of cultivar development, theory thechnique. Walter R. Fehr lowa State University
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program Requirements Contribution Level DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 Measurement Method
PY1 4 4 4 4 4 40,60
PY2 5 0 0 0 0 40,60
PY3 3 0 0 0 0 40,60
PY4 2 0 0 0 0 40,60
PY5 4 0 0 0 0 40,60
PY6 4 0 0 0 0 40,60
PY7 3 0 0 0 0 40,60
PY8 4 0 0 0 0 40,60
PY9 3 0 0 0 0 40,60
PY10 4 0 0 0 0 40,60
*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
ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm 1 1 20 20
Homework 1 5 2 10
Final 1 26.5 26.5
Classroom Activities 10 2 20
Total Workload 76.5
ECTS Credit of the Course 3.0