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.
About the course
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.
Result after the course
About the course
Content of the course
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
- Sexual and asexual reproduction
- Genetic material, genes and chromosomes
- Mitosis and meiosis
- Mendelian genetics, linkage, epistasis, multiple alleles, cytoplasmatic inheritance
- Introduction to Plant breeding
Day 2 and 3: plant breeding continued
- Genetic resources and recombination
- Polyploidy, Interspecific hybridisation, introgression,Repeated backcross
- Selection, Quantitative characteristics
- Resistance breeding
- Breeding vegetative propagated crops
- Breeding self-pollinated crops, line development
- Breeding open pollinated crops
- Principle of hybrids
- General and specific combining ability, developing of hybrid varieties
- Seed production in hybrids (male sterility, female lines, incompatibility)
- Intellectual property
Day 4: variety testing and statistics, laboratory techniques and biotechnology
Cell biology based techniques: tissue culture, doubled haploids
DNA based techniques:
- Marker assisted breeding (Principles, techniques, application)
- Mutagenesis
- Genome editing and genetic modification
For who
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.
Guidance
The course is given by experienced lecturers from HAS green academy:
- MSc dr Emile Clerkx (HAS green academy)
- Dr Mark van de Wouw PhD (HAS green academy)
Practical information
What do you need to enroll in this course? And what else is good to know?
Good to know
Start and course dates
The course Plant breeding essentials in one week starts on November 14 2023.
The duration of the course is one intensive course week:
- November 14 2023
- November 15 2023
- November 16 2023
- November 17 2023
Requirements
To enroll in this online course you must have:
- Bachelor level education, preferably in agriculture or molecular biology and some knowledge of genetics, or;
- A Msc degree without breeding.
Completion of the course
After successful completion of the course you will receive a certificate of HAS green academy.
Course price
- Date of commencement
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To be determined
- Investment
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€ 2.995,00excl. VAT
Price specification
- Course price
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€ 2.995,00
- Total price
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€ 2.995,00excl. VAT
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.
Questions? Please get in touch with us!
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Lamiaâ Fareh El Btioui
Projectmanager Business courses
- l.fareh@has.nl
- l.fareh@has.nl
- +31 88 890 37 74
- +31 88 890 37 74
