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UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN BOTANY
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)
SYLLABUS
Semester V - Paper VIII - Plant Breeding and Evolution
Duration: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4
Lecture 4 Hrs; Practicals 2 Hrs. per week
Unit - I
Methods of Crop improvement - introduction, acclimatization different methods of selection (mass, pureline and clonal).
Unit - II
Hybridization techniques - interspectific and intergeneric hybridization - heterosis.
Unit - III
Polyploidy and its application in plant breeding, breeding for disease resistance, mutation breeding.
Unit - IV
Breeding for crop improvement with reference to Paddy, Wheat, Sugarcane and Ground nut
Unit - V
Evolution: Origin of life, theories related to origin of life and evolution, chemosynthetic theory on the origin of life. Evolutionary theory of Lamarck. Darwin and DeVries - Modern synthetic theory of evolution.
(No Practicais)
Reference Books
1. Allard R.W 1960, Principles of Plant Breeding. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
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