Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

BOT 306 — Plant Breeding

BOT department course · Nigerian universities

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Course contents

The objectives of plant breeding; origin and domestication of plant breeding. Self-pollinated and cross-pollinated crops. Breeding methods, pure line breeding and mass selection; pedigree method; bulk population breeding; back cross breeding. Recurrent selection, chromosome manipulation.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study BOT 306.

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