| Course Title | Code | Language | Type | Semester | L+U Hour | Credits | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Principles of Plant Breeding | TB301 | Turkish | Compulsory | 5. Semester | 2 + 0 | 2.0 | 3.0 |
| Prerequisite Courses | |
| Course Level | Undergraduate |
| Mode of delivery | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Fikret BUDAK |
| Instructor(s) | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Fikret BUDAK (Güz) |
| 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. |
| # | Öğrenme Kazanımı |
| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | elucidate new cultivars for special environments |
| 3 | elucidate basic genetic principal of crop plants, and hybridization techniques of crop plants |
| 4 | explain genetic diversity after crossing, breeding objectives of crop plants, developing resistance crops to biotic and abiotic stress |
| Week | Topics/Applications | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Week | History of plant breeding, importance and aims of plant breeding, effects of plant breeding on plant production | Class Hours Interview Presentation (Preparation) |
| 2. Week | Reproduction systems of plants, breeding techiques, flower morphology, pollination and fertilisation, cell divitions, fertilizations of field crops | Class Hours Presentation (Preparation) Interview |
| 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 | Presentation (Preparation) Interview Class Hours |
| 4. Week | Linkage, quantitative inheritance, heritability | Interview Presentation (Preparation) Class Hours |
| 5. Week | Hetorosis and its importance in plant breeding, genetic explanation of heterosis and use in plant breeding | Interview Presentation (Preparation) Class Hours |
| 6. Week | Incompatibility, infertility. Genetic male infertility, stoplasmic infertility, genetic-stoplasmic infertility, their importance in plant breeding | Interview Class Hours Presentation (Preparation) |
| 7. Week | Breeding methods for self pollinating crops. Selection and hybridization | Class Hours Interview Presentation (Preparation) |
| 8. Week | Midterm Examination | |
| 9. Week | Breeding methods for cross pollinating crops. Selection, hybridization and synthetic cultivars | Interview Presentation (Preparation) Class Hours |
| 10. Week | Breeding methods for both self and cross pollinating crops. Single seed descent, early generation test | Class Hours Presentation (Preparation) Interview |
| 11. Week | Breeding methods for both self and cross pollinating crops. Mutation breeding and polyploidy | Presentation (Preparation) Class Hours Interview |
| 12. Week | Resistance, tolerance and their inheritance | Presentation (Preparation) Class Hours Interview |
| 13. Week | Developing disease and pest resistance crops | Class Hours Interview Presentation (Preparation) |
| 14. Week | Developing pest resistance crops and developing stress resistance crops | Fieldwork Class Hours Presentation (Preparation) |
| No | Program Requirements | Level of Contribution | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | Skill of apply basic science and engineering knowledge and principles to Agricultural Engineering problems | ✔ | |||||
| 2 | He/she can use the information in his/her area to solve problems and use his/her applying skills in interdiscipliner studies | ✔ | |||||
| 3 | He/she can conduct an independed research in a specified area related with field crops | ✔ | |||||
| 4 | He/she can develop new strategic approaches and can produce solutions taking the responsibility, to the problems unexpected or faced in the practice related with field crops | ✔ | |||||
| 5 | He/she can develope a positive attitute to the lifelong education by knowledge and skils gained in field crops area | ✔ | |||||
| 6 | He/she can control the data collection, evaluation and publication, keeping cultural and scientific and ethical values and can teach these values. | ✔ | |||||
| 7 | He/she can develop strategy, policy and applying plans and can discuss the results obtained in the framework of quality management periods | ✔ | |||||
| 8 | Self-development skill following the developments in science and technology | ✔ | |||||
| 9 | He/she can transfer his/her works and the developlmets in his/her area in a written, audial and visual way. | ✔ | |||||
| 10 | He/she can evaluate the knowledge and skills in field crops area in specified level with a criticising approach | ✔ | |||||
| Program Requirements | DK1 | DK2 | DK3 | DK4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PY1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PY2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| PY3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| PY4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| PY5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PY6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PY7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| PY8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PY9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| PY10 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Ders Kitabı veya Notu | Ders Kitabı veya Ders Notu bulunmamaktadır. |
|---|---|
| Diğer Kaynaklar |
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| ECTS credits and course workload | Quantity | Duration (Hour) | Total Workload (Hour) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Sınavlar |
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 | |||
| *AKTS = (Total Workload) / 25,5 | ECTS Credit of the Course | 3.0 | ||
