Breeding of Fruit and Plantation Crops

Overview

Fruit crops

Fruit breeding is the application of genetic principles to the genetic improvement and management of fruit crops. Aims at evolving new fruit and nut varieties to meet the changing and diverse requirements of the country and similar areas on one hand and maintaining and conserving the fast depleting genetic resources of these fruit crops on the other hand besides building up through teaching and training a cadre of specially qualified and dedicated fruit breeders to meet the national needs.
Plantation crops

1. The present course enables the participants to understand the basic and principles of modern plant breeding and learns to integrate the conventional techniques.
2. To identify the methods that contributes towards greater efficacy in the selection processes and in the development of new varieties.
3. This course also helps to design a breeding programme for a given crop species for the conditions of the need according to specific objectives.