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:
- 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
- Describe key genomic differences between major row crops
- Understand major areas of genomic techniques and how they are applied in crops