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Plant breeding systems - MB120P144
Title: Plant breeding systems
Czech title: Rozmnožovací systémy u rostlin
Guaranteed by: Department of Botany (31-120)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2014 to 2018
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Jindřich Chrtek, CSc.
doc. Mgr. Patrik Mráz, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Jindřich Chrtek, CSc.
doc. Mgr. Patrik Mráz, Ph.D.
Class: Digestoř pro karyologii/palynologii s odtahem
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Annotation -
Last update: doc. Mgr. Patrik Mráz, Ph.D. (26.02.2021)
Students will learn about variation in breeding systems in vascular plants, methodological approaches for studying
such variation and its evolutionary and ecological consequences. Each lecture will include an introduction to a
specific topic following by student's presentation of selected scientific paper – a case study.
Literature -
Last update: prof. RNDr. Jiří Neustupa, Ph.D. (21.05.2018)

A.J. Richards: Plant Breding Systems. - Garland Science, 1997.

D. Charlesworth: Evolution of plant breeding systems. - Current Biology 16, 2006.

Syllabus -
Last update: prof. RNDr. Jiří Neustupa, Ph.D. (05.09.2019)

1. Introduction

2. Sexual plant reproduction: allogamy versus autogamy

3. Gene flow

4. Flowers - structure and function

5. Flowering

6. Pollination

7. Pollination at the level of plant communities

8. Pollination trends in bioms

9. Apomixis

10. Vegetative reproduction

11. Synthesis

 
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