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