Genetics and Plant Breeding

Paper Code: 
BOT 301
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

To study the mendelian as well as modern aspects of genetics with Plant Breeding.

 

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Genetic Inheritance

Mendelism, laws of inheritance, gene interactions, linkage and crossing over, multiple alleles, sex determination, sex linked, sex influenced, sex limited traits.

 

9.00
Unit II: 
Chromosomal variations

Chromosomal aberrations, duplication, deficiency, inversion and translocation, changes in chromosome number: haploids, aneuploids and polyploids, autopolyploids and allopolyploids, monosomics and trisomics. Mutations- spontaneous and induced, physical and chemical mutagens , related genetic disorders- Turner’s syndrome, Down’s syndrome, Kleinfelter’s syndrome, Cri-du –chat syndrome, Triple X syndrome.

 

9.00
Unit III: 
Gene expression

Gene fine structure, introns and their role in genetics, regulation of  gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, lac operon and tryptophan operon, lytic and lysogenic cycle in bacteriophages.

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Extra nuclear genome

Genetics of mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA- structure, functions and inheritance, plasmids and episomes; maternal effects and cytoplasmic inheritance, cytoplasmic male sterility.                                                                                         

9.00
Unit V: 
Plant Breeding

Methods of plant breeding, selection (mass, pureline and clonal), pedigree analysis, acclimatization, hybridization, heterosis and inbreeding depression

 

Essential Readings: 

 

  • Atherlt, AG; Girton, JR and McDonald, JF. 1999. The Science of Genetics. Saunders College Publishing. Fort Worth, USA
  • Chaudhary, HK. 1998. Elementary Principles of Plant Breeding. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
  • Chopra, VL. 2003. Plant Breeding. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
  • Devi and Pratibha. 2003. Principles and Methods of Plant Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Genetics. Agrobios, Jodhpur.
  • Gupta, PK. 1993. Genetics and Plant Breeding. Rastogi Publications, Meerut. 
  • Mohan P. Arora and Gurdarshan S. Sandhu. Genetics, 5th revised edition. Himalaya Publishing House, Mumbai

 

References: 
  • Hartt, DL and Jones, EW. 1998. Genetics: Principles and Analysis (4th edition). Jones and Bartlett Publishers. Massachusetts, USA.
  • Hawkins. Gene Structure and Expression. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK      
  • Russel, PJ. 1998. Genetics. The Benjamin/ Cummings Publishing Co. Inc.,USA.
  • Sharma. 1997. Plant Breeding. Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
  • Singh, BD. 2003. Plant Breeding. Kalyani Publishers.
  • Sinha. 1995. Cytogenetics, Plant Breeding and Evolution. Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
  • Snustad, DP and Simmons, MJ. 2000. Principles of Genetics. John Wiley & Sons Inc., USA.
  • Stent, GS 1986. Molecular Genetics. CBS Publications, New Delhi.
  • Tyagi. 1996. Fundamentals of Cytogenetics, Plant Breeding and Evolution. Ramesh Book Depot, Jaipur.
  • Gardner.2000 Genetics. John Wiley and Sones Inc.,USA.

 

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015
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