This course is a brief introduction to crop improvement. Topics include the nature and goals of plant breeding, patterns of evolution in cultivated crops, plant introduction and domestication, genetic basis and methods of breeding self-pollinated and cross pollinated crops, breeding for diseases resistance, polyploidy in plant breeding and inters-specific hybridization. Practicals will focus of flower morphology and anatomy of cross pollinated and self-pollinated plants, emasculation, field trips to research institutions where there are breeding programmes.
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