Course Offerings - Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics
Core Major Courses: |
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PB 111 | Principles of Plant Breeding - Fundamental concepts and theories of cultivar development | |||
PB 112 | Methods of Plant Breeding - Methods, techniques and systems of crop improvement | |||
PB 115 | Plant Genetic Resources Conservation and Utilization - Concepts, principles and strategies of germplasm maintenance and use in crop improvement | |||
PB 117 | Experimental Designs and Field Plot Techniques - Design and lay-out of experimental units; analysis and inference of data involving variances, covariances and multiple regression | |||
PB 122 | Plant Genetics I - Introduction to specialized fields of genetics relevant to plant breeding | |||
PB 123 | Plant Genetics II - Principles and techniques of cytogenetic investigations, manipulation and their application to plant breeding | |||
PB 198 | Research Planning and Manuscript Preparation | |||
PB 199 | Undergraduate Seminar | |||
PB 200 | Undergraduate Thesis | |||
PB 200a | Field Practice |
Elective Major Courses: |
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Agro 123 | Seed Technology | |||
Hort 173 | Introduction to Plant Tissue Culture | |||
Ag. Ext 123 | Principles, Methods and Strategies in Extension | |||
Math 101 | Elementary Calculus I | |||
Bio 138 | Introduction to Cell and Molecular Biology | |||
Bot 112 | Plant Biochemistry | |||
Bot 141 | Plant Systematics | |||
PB 113 | Breeding Horticultural Crops | |||
PB 114 | Breeding Field Crops | |||
PB 125 | Techniques in Plant Breeding | |||
PPATH 111 | Principles of Plant Pathology | |||
ENTOM 111 | Principles of Entomology | |||
Graduate Courses: | ||||
PB 212 |
Advanced Plant Breeding - Recent advances in plant breeding |
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PB 213 |
Plant Breeding and Biometrical Genetics - Experimental and statistical concepts and procedures for quantitatively inherited traits as used in plant breeding |
Distribution of Major Courses by Term | ||||
The general BSA Curricular program shall be followed with the following major courses taken in the term specified: | ||||
Third Year, First Semester Third Year, Second Semester | ||||
PBre 111 | PBre 112 | |||
PBre 117 | PBre 122 | |||
PBre 198 | PBre 123 | |||
Third Year, Summer (for field practice option only) | PBre 113 | |||
PBre 200a (4 units) | PBre 200 (for thesis option) (1 unit) | |||
Fourth Year, First Semester | Fourth Year, Second Semester | |||
PBre 115 | PBre 199 | |||
Major Elective | Major Elective | |||
Major Elective (for field practice option) | Major Elective (for field practice option) | |||
PBre 200/200a (1 unit) | PBre 200/200a (4/1 units) |