| Course ID: | PBGG(HORT) 8102. 1 hour. |
| Course Title: | Breeding Ornamental Plants |
Course
Description: | Concepts and methods of improving ornamentals, particularly woody
and asexually propagated ornamentals. Topics include breeding
methods, pollination biology, barriers to obtaining seed set in
intra- and interspecific pollenations and methods to overcome
these barriers, genetic variation, polyploidy, and inheritance of
foliar variegation. |
| Oasis Title: | BREED ORNAMENTALS |
| Nontraditional Format: | Course meets for three hours of lecture per week during second five
weeks of the semester. |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | To develop an appreciation and knowledge of factors involved
in developing improved ornamental plants. |
| Topical Outline: | Developing a breeding program
Methods used in ornamental plant breeding
Qualitative vs. quantitative traits
Pollination and fertilization control mechanisms
Genetic implications of self vs. cross pollinated crops
Number of chromosomes and polyploidy
Interspecific and intergeneric crossing
Inheritance of variegation
Somatic cell genetics |