Course Offered

UG,PG, Ph.D courses:

DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS & PLANT BREEDING

UG Courses

Plant Breeding & Genetics
1 GPB-121 Fundamentals of Genetics 3 (2+1)
2 GPB-211 Fundamentals of Plant Breeding 3 (2+1)
3 GPB-221 Principles of Seed Technology 3 (1+2)
4 GPB-222 Commercial Plant Breeding 3 (1+2)*
5 GPB-311 Crop Improvement-I (Kharif crops) 2 (1+1)
6 GPB-321 Crop Improvement-II (Rabi crops) 2 (1+1)
7 GPB-322 Micro propagation Technologies 3 (1+2)*

PG Courses

Semester wise distribution of new courses as BSMA Committee for GPB

S. No. Course Code Course Title Credits

M. Sc (Ag.) GPB

I- Semester

1

GPB 511*

Principles of Genetics

3 (2+1)

2

GPB 512*

Principles of Plant Breeding

3 (2+1)

3

GPB 513

Principles of Cytogenetics

3 (2+1)

4

GPB 514

Germplasm Characterization and Evaluation

2 (1+1)

5

GPB 515

Hybrid Breeding

3 (2+1)

6

GPB 516

Crop Breeding-I (Kharif Crops)

3 (2+1)

7

GPB 517

Breeding Ornamental Crops

3 (2+1)

II Semester

1

GPB 521*

Fundamentals of Quantitative Genetics

3 (2+1)

2

GPB 522

Mutagenesis and Mutation Breeding

3 (2+1)

3

GPB 523

Seed Production and Certification

2 (1+1)

4

GPB 524

Breeding for Quality and Special Traits

3 (2+1)

5

GPB 525

Genetic Enhancement for PGR Utilization

2 (1+1)

6

GPB 526

Crop Breeding-II (Rabi Crops)

3 (2+1)

III Semester

1

GPB 531*

Molecular Breeding and Bioinformatics

2 (1+1)

2

GPB 532

Breeding for Stress Resistance and Climate Change

3 (2+1)

3

GPB 533

Varietal Development and Maintenance Breeding

3 (2+1)

4

GPB 534

Breeding Vegetable Crops

3 (2+1)

5

GPB 535

Breeding Fruit Crops

3 (2+1)

IV Semester

1

GPB 541

Master’s seminar

1 (0+1)

2

GPB 542

Oral comprehensive

NC

3

GPB 543

Master’s research

30 (0+30)

Ph.D. GPB Courses

S. No Course Code Course Title Credits

I- Semester

1

GPB 611*

Advances in Plant Breeding Systems

3(3+0)

2

GPB 612

Advances in Biometrical Genetics

3(2+1)

3

GPB 613

Crop Evolution

3(3+0)

4

GPB 614

Breeding Designer Crops

2(1+1)

5

GPB 615

Plant Genetics Resources, Conservation and Utilization

2(2+0)

II- Semester

1

GPB 621*

Genomics in Plant Breeding

3(3+0)

2

GPB 622*

IPR and Regulatory Mechanism (e-course)

1(1+0)

3

GPB 623

Molecular Cytogenetics for Crop Improvement

2(2+0)

4

GPB 624

Population Genetics

2(2+0)

III- Semester and onward semesters

1

GPB 641

Doctoral seminar – I

1(0+1)

2

GPB 642

Doctoral seminar – II

1(0+1)

3

GPB 643

Comprehensive (written + oral)

NC

4

GPB 644

Doctoral research

75(0+75)