Principle of Horticultural Plant Breeding

I. Introduction topics
I.1 Basic feathers of plant breeding
I.2 Significant occurrence of plant breeding
I.3 Crop enolution and genetic diversity

II. Basic plant plant breeding systems
II.1 Population structure
II.2 Heritability and response to selection
II.3 Pure line breeding
II.4 Mass selection
II.5 Pedigree breeding
II.6 Bulk breeding
II.7 Single seed descent breeding
II.8 Backcross breeding
II.9 Combination breeding
II.10 Recurrent selection
II.11 Hybrid breeding
II.12 Synthetic breeding

III. Plant breeding and plant production
III.1 Plant breeding and plant physiology
III.2 Plant breeding and plant pathology
III.3 Breeding for industrial crop

IV. Plant breeding methods
IV.1 Utilization of mutants
IV.2 Polyploid forms and plant breeding
IV.3 Interspecific and intergeneric hybridization

V. Trial design and evaluation

Textbook
Kuckuck H., G. Kobabe, G. Wenzel. 1991. Fundamentals of plant breeding. Springer-Verlag, Hongkong
盧守耕 現代作物育種學