Colorado calling on cyberspace: Course in Plant breeding for drought tolerance
- Tuesday, 30 April 2013 14:34
Once again, Colorado State University (USA) is offering a postgraduate-level online course in Plant breeding for drought tolerance.
- Dates: 26 August–13 December 2013
- Target: postgraduate students in plant science, and professionals in the public and private sectors interested in increasing their knowledge in this area
Course content includes:
- Analysing the target environment
- Understanding plant response to drought stress and plant adaptation strategies
- Using wild species and landraces as sources of drought tolerance
- Determining which phenotypic traits to use in selection practices
- Detecting marker–trait associations for relevant traits
- Understanding transgenic approaches to drought tolerance
- Learning from successful examples of improving drought tolerance in a variety of crops.
More details are on the IBP portal
