Breeding and Seed Production of Ornamental Crops (2+1)

LECTURE SCHEDULE

Course Title: Breeding and Seed Production of Ornamental Crops 3 (2+1)
Course Leader: Dr Y C Gupta, Prof. & Head, Dept. of FLS, YSPUHF, Nauni – Solan (H.P.)

Weeks	Theory
1st Week	Topic: 1 History of Improvement of Ornamental Plants- Part I Topic: 2 History of Improvement of Ornamental Plants- Part II
2nd Week	Topic: 3 Objectives in Plant Breeding Topic: 4 Techniques/Methods of crop Improvement
3rd Week	Topic: 5 Plant Introduction Topic: 6 Selection
4th Week	Topic: 7 Mass Selection Topic: 8 Hybridization: Techniques and Consequences
5th Week	Topic: 9 Procedure of Hybridization Topic: 10 Mutation Breeding
6th Week	Topic: 11 Applications of Mutation Breeding Topic: 12 Biotechnological Techniques for the Improvement of Ornamental Plants
7th Week	Topic: 13 Breeding for Disease Resistance Topic: 14 Role of Heterosis and its exploitation
8th Week	Topic: 15 Use of Inbred Lines for the Development of New Varieties Topic: 16 Production of F1 hybrids
9th Week	Topic: 17 Techniques of hybrid seed production, methods of making a cross
10th Week	Topic: 18 Hybrid Seed Production in some important annual flower Crops- Part I Topic: 19 Hybrid Seed Production in some important annual flower Crops- Part II
11th Week	Topic: 20 Utilization of male sterility for hybrid Seed Production Topic: 21 Field production of open pollinated varieties-I
12th Week	Topic: 22 Field Production of Open Pollinated varieties Topic: 23 Harvesting of Seeds, Stages of Seed harvesting of different annual flower Crops
13th Week	Topic: 24 Seed Processing, Cleaning, Sizing and Packaging Topic: 25 Seed Storage, Storage Conditions for different flower Crops
14th Week	Topic: 26 Seed Certification Topic: 27 Seed Production Procedures Part-I
15th Week	Topic: 28 Seed Production Procedures Part-II Topic: 29 Breeding of Rose, Objectives and techniques
16th Week	Topic: 30 Breeding of gladiolus: objectives and techniques Topic: 31 Breeding of tuberose: objectives and techniques
17th Week	Topic: 32 Breeding of Jasmine and Hibiscus
	Practicals
1st Week	Excercise 1: Acquaintance with breeding tools for floricultural crops
2nd Week	Excercise 2: Pollen collection, its preparation and storage
3rd Week	Excercise 3: Determining the pollen viability through staining tests
4th Week	Excercise 4: Methods of emasculation and pollination
5th Week	Excercise 5: Determination of stigma receptivity.
6th Week	Excercise 6: To study the preparation of floral diagram and floral formula
7th Week	Excercise 7: To study the floral biology of Rose
8th Week	Excercise 8: To perform hybridization in Rose
9th Week	Excercise 9: To study floral biology of Gladiolus
10th Week	Excercise 10: To study hybridization in Gladiolus
11th Week	Excercise 11: To study floral biology in Lilium
12th Week	Excercise 12: To study hybridization in Lilium
13th Week	Excercise 13: To study harvesting stages of seed of annuals
14th Week	Excercise 14: To study hybridization in Antirrhinum
15th Week	Excercise 15: To study hybridization in Pansy
16th Week	Excercise 16: To study hybridization in marigold

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