[Plsgs] Online Course Offering in Plant Breeding

[Timothy Arthur Dabbert]

Graduate Students,

I wanted to inform you all of an online course that is being offered in the
fall, Plant Breeding for Drought Tolerance.  Below is some more information
if you are interested.  I took this course last year and was impressed on
how it was presented.

CSU is again offering its online course in breeding for drought tolerance.
We hope you will help us spread the word about the course to your
colleagues who may be interested.



*PLANT BREEDING FOR DROUGHT TOLERANCE Online course - Fall 2013***

Colorado State University will offer a one-credit, graduate-level online
course in Plant Breeding for Drought Tolerance from August 26 to December
13, 2013. This distance course is targeted to graduate students in the
plant sciences, as well as to professionals in the public and private
sectors interested in increasing their knowledge in this area. The
primaryinstructor is Dr. Patrick Byrne, Department of Soil and Crop
Sciences.



*CONTENT*

The course will focus on plant breeding strategies and practices directed
toward improving plant performance under limited moisture. Concepts for
this course include:

   - Analyzing 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



The 15-week curriculum is divided into 15 lessons, which students may view
at their convenience each week. Each lesson’s content will be delivered via
a voice-over PowerPoint presentation, a video, a reading assignment, or
combinations of these media.



*PROGRAM COSTS AND REQUIREMENTS*

The cost of student tuition is US $549 plus a $20 technology fee. Word
processing,
spreadsheet, and presentation software (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint) is required, as is Adobe Reader.



*FUNDING*

Partial funding to support course development is provided by a grant from
the USDA-NIFA-AFRI Plant Breeding and Education Program.



*MORE **INFORMATION **AND **REGISTRATION***

Additional information on the course is available at
http://droughtadaptation.org/.

For questions, please contact the Program Assistant, Kierra Jewell (
Kierra.Jewell at ColoState.edu). Applications will be accepted through August
1, 2013 or until the class is full (20 students).



Sincerely,

Kierra Jewell

Soil & Crop Sciences

C03 Plant Science Building

(970) 491-6201


Thanks,


Tim Dabbert
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