Amway Grand Plaza - Grand Rapids, MI, United States
Sessions will cover topics such as basic and advanced plant breeding techniques, managing a breeding program, bringing selections to market, intellectual property management, market trends.
Introductory Plant Breeding course for non-majors. Emphasis is on methods of developing improved cultivars of cross-pollinated, self-pollinated, and asexually-propagated crops. Student will learn the main areas of plant breeding, including germplasm resources, male ster...
Biotech Building, Cornell campus - Ithaca, NY, United States
Will offer a primer to the science behind the new methods for gene modification, provide specific examples of improved crops and livestock that may soon enter the marketplace and address key policy issues underpinning oversight of these potential non-GMOs in the United ...
The 2013 class will maintain the core curriculum delivered in the previous classes and add modules to address the most recent development in plant breeding theory and practice, including an expanded section on molecular marker use, genome selection, non-replicated desig...
The day is designed to provide a “hands-on” field experience for those interested in the latest science applied to two of Australia’s most important grain crops; wheat and barley.
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