Graduate Plant Science Courses

5245. Plant Breeding and Biotechnology

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: One of BIOL 1102, 1108, 1110; MCB 2410; SPSS 3210, 3230, 4210, or instructor consent.

Grading Basis: Graded

Principles and applications, economic, social and environmental impacts, advantages, potentials and limitations of major traditional and modern plant breeding technologies including crossing/hybridization, polyploidy, mutagenesis, genetic engineering and genome editing.