Spring 2027

Plant Breeding and Biotechnology

Covers principles of crop plant improvement within genetics, plant biology, breeding, biotechnology, and global food/feed/raw material needs.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Rajdeep Khangura

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 2.89 GPA, 32.3% A/AB (n=31 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain the basic principles of plant breeding

  • Describe and analyze different plant breeding systems and methods

  • Identify, formulate, and solve breeding problems using appropriate information and approaches

  • Discuss the professional and ethical responsibility of plant breeding activities

  • Synthesize knowledge to propose improvements to breeding systems and write clear and concise technical reports and research articles

  • Discuss the significance of current research in the field of plant breeding

  • Critically assess and compare various breeding strategies

  • Evaluate advanced breeding strategies and technologies as presented in scientific literature (e.g. use of genomic tools in breeding, CRISPR, speed breeding strategies, and use of AI in breeding among others)

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Prerequisites

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BIOLOGY/​BOTANY 130,GENETICS 466, 467,BIOCORE 381, or (ZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY/​BOTANY 151 and 152 or concurrent enrollment inZOOLOGY/​BIOLOGY/​BOTANY 152)

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 2.89 GPA, 32.3% A/AB (n=31 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Crop plant improvement, genetics, plant biology, plant breeding, plant biotechnology, and world food/feed/raw material needs.
  • Advanced breeding strategies and technologies including genomic tools, CRISPR, speed breeding, and AI.

Skills

  • Explain plant breeding principles and analyze breeding systems and methods.
  • Formulate and solve breeding problems while critically assessing and comparing strategies.
  • Write clear and concise technical reports and research articles proposing breeding system improvements.
  • Evaluate advanced breeding strategies and technologies including genomic tools, CRISPR, and AI.

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1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

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PLANTSCI 338 · Spring 2027

Plant Breeding and Biotechnology

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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