At the end of the course you will have the skills and abilities to work more independently as a breeding employee.
For researchers taking this course, the course helps to better understand the implications of your own research for plant breeders.
Breeding requires fundamental knowledge of plant genetics and supporting techniques to choose the correct strategies. Building on the success of our Dutch and international training courses on plant breeding, and our extensive cooperation with the international seed industry, we can provide a course which gives good insight both in the theory and its application in breeding.
At the end of the course you will have the skills and abilities to work more independently as a breeding employee.
For researchers taking this course, the course helps to better understand the implications of your own research for plant breeders.
This 4 day course provides you with a concise overview of essential principles of plant genetics, plant selection, variety development, resistance breeding and supporting techniques, such as molecular markers, mutation breeding and cell biology techniques. The following topics are discussed:
Day 1: Botany, genetics and plant breeding
Day 2 and 3: plant breeding continued
Day 4: variety testing and statistics, laboratory techniques and biotechnology
Cell biology based techniques: tissue culture, doubled haploids
DNA based techniques:
The course is aimed at Assistant breeders, junior breeders and researchers in plant breeding companies that are involved in plant breeding programmes, but who lack the theoretical background in plant breeding.
The course is given by experienced lecturers from HAS green academy:
What do you need to enroll in this course? And what else is good to know?
The course Plant breeding essentials in one week starts on November 14 2023.
The duration of the course is one intensive course week:
To enroll in this online course you must have:
After successful completion of the course you will receive a certificate of HAS green academy.
All amounts mentioned are excluding VAT. Training costs, including course material, are exempt from VAT. All other costs are charged with 9% VAT.
The basic course is included.
Any bank/administration fees are for your own account.