Instructor(s): David Hyten
Number of Credit Hours: 3
Cross-listings: PLAS 496
Prerequisites:
Description: Principles of how molecular biology and genomics are integrated into modern crop breeding programs to accelerate genetic improvement. An introduction to current and emerging molecular biology technology and methods being used in crop breeding and their practical utilization in breeding programs. An overview of the plant breeding pipeline and how molecular technologies and methods can be integrated into that pipeline for applications such as characterizing genetic diversity in germplasm pools, discovering genes and novel alleles that can improve important traits, marker-assisted selection, and genomic selection.
Learning Outcomes/Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course on advanced crop genomics students will be able to:
- Describe key features of crops’ genome and how those features affect genomics technology
- Understand current genomics technology used in modern crop breeding
- Apply genomic technology in crop breeding programs to help maximize genetic gain
- Extract information from scientific papers and to discuss and present that information to others such as:
- What claims are made within the paper
- Describe and understand how the results were obtained
- Why the authors performed the experiments described in the paper
- Evaluate if the results presented supports the authors conclusions
- The significance of the work presented in the manuscript