AGRO 919 – Advanced Crop Genetics and Genomics

plant genetics

Instructor(s): David Hyten

Number of Credit Hours: 3

Cross-listings:  HORT 919

Prerequisites: PLAS 215

Description: Focus student learning on principles related to mendelian, population, and molecular genetics of plants including allelisms, nonallelic gene interaction, linkage and recombination, mode of inheritance, mutation, epigenetics, DNA-based makers and mapping techniques, inheritance of qualitative and quantitative traits, and plant transformation.

Learning Outcomes/Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course on advanced crop genomics students will be able to:

  1. Extract information from scientific papers and to discuss and present that information to others such as:
    1. What claims are made within the paper
    2. Describe and understand how the results were obtained
    3. Why the authors performed the experiments described in the paper
    4. Evaluate if the results presented supports the authors conclusions
    5. The significance of the work presented in the manuscript
  2. Describe key genomic differences between major row crops
  3. Understand major areas of genomic techniques and how they are applied in crops