Course Content
Qualitative and quantitative characters (qualitative and quantitative characters in crops and their inheritance)
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Biometrical techniques in plant breeding (assessment of variability, aids to selection, choice of parents, crossing techniques, genotype-by- environment interactions)
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Selection in self-pollinated crops (progeny test, pureline theory, origin of variation, genetic advance, genetic gain)
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Hybridization techniques and its consequences (objectives, types, program, procedures, consequences)
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Genetic composition of cross-pollinated populations (Hardy-Weinberg law, equilibrium, mating systems)
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Breeding methods in self-pollinated crops (Mass, Pure line, Pedigree, Bulk, Backcross, etc)
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Learn Introductory Plant Breeding with Rahul
About Lesson

Pest includes

  • Pathogens
  • Insect pests or non-insect pests
  • Parasites (including weeds)

 

Disease

  • Disease is an abnormal condition in the plant produced by an organism.
  • Diseases are produced by a variety of organisms from both plant and animal kingdoms, viz, fungi, bacteria, viruses, nematodes and insects.
  • Diseases reduce total biomass production and economic yield up to 100% of the crop in one or more ways of Killing or damaging of leaf, branches, reproductive units or whole plant.

 

How disease develops?

  • The development of any disease depends on a close interaction among three diverse factors: host, pathogen and environment

 

Up to when a cultivar remains resistant?

  • Coevolution of pathogen and host natural evolution which develops resistance plants also being coevolution of pathogens
  • A non-resistant variety may disappear.
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