NPLK15012U New Plant Breeding Technologies
The course will provide the students a basic understanding of plant breeding. The course focuses on the new breeding technologies within mutational breeding. In recent years new mutations methods have been developed that allows to target the gene-of-interest in order to introduce site-directed mutations.The course will in theory and practice introduce New Plant Breeding Techniques (NPBTs) including TILLING. The legal certainty for science and industry concerning the application of NPBT will be presented along with examples of the exploitation of the techiques in addition to classical methods including the latest genomic information. The course will deal with the challenges of phenotyping large populations and management of large dataset.
A mix of lectures, case study and excursion to a plant breeding company will provide an excellent learning experience. Leading experts in their field will be teaching the course.
The course is concerned with plant breeding of field crop plants (eg. grain, grass, tuber), forestry trees, specialty plants with reference to temperate climate growth conditions. The aim is to bridge between plant molecular biology and practical plant breeding
The principle of the new breeding technologies
Mutational breeding
Breeding strategies in different crops
Breeders right, IPR and GMO regulation
After completing the course, the participants should be able to:
Knowledge:
- Understanding difference between mutation methods
- Understanding the principles of cripspar and TILLING
- Knowledge about the genome editing technologies
Skills
- Be able to identify required information in order to carry out a mutational breeding project
- Be able to design tools needed for cripspar and TILLING for a target trait
Competences
- Be able to evaluate feasibility of breeding for a given trait
- Be able to suggest critical measures to reach the goal
During the self-preparatory phase at home, participants will have access to recommended literature for course preparation
This is an intensive course starting Sunday and ends the following Saturday, both day included. Before the course an assignment is given, where the students on the basis of given literature prepare a presentation to be given for the rest of the students on the course. The final report is to be handed in Saturday (5 pages), some of the results will first be ready Saturday, so there need to be reported shortly after the course.
The course takes place at Frederiksberg Campus (Central Copenhagen)
- Category
- Hours
- Excursions
- 8
- Guidance
- 20
- Laboratory
- 20
- Lectures
- 20
- Preparation
- 42
- Project work
- 27,5
- Total
- 137,5
ELLS summer course is in collaboration with 7 universities, the responsibility and place for the course is in turns. 2016 PLEN is responsible for the course.
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- Credit
- 5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Continuous assessmentThe examination consists of handing in written reports and oral presentations.
Continous assessment of written case project report (Weight:80%), and the oral presentation of the case studies (weight :20%). - Exam registration requirements
Participation in compulsory components are required. Compulsory components include the lab exercises, the study visit and attendance at a minimum of 90% of the scheduled lectures.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
One internal examinator
- Re-exam
Re-examination: Oral exam in full curriculum
If the exam requirement is not met before the ordinary exam the student must hand in reports over the laboratory exercices before the reexamination.
Criteria for exam assesment
The assesment will be based the learning outcomes
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NPLK15012U
- Credit
- 5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- Placement
- Summer
- Schedule
- 1 week: Sunday August 21. to Saturday August 27. 2016.
- Course capacity
- 40
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Natural Resources and Environment
Contracting department
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
Course responsibles
- Søren Kjærsgaard Rasmussen (3-766e7543736f6871316e7831676e)
Lecturers
From ELLS: Herman Bürstmayer (BOKU), Rodomiro Ortiz (SLU), Karl
Smid (Hohenheim), Eva Stöger (BOKU) plus more
From UCPH: Anna Maria Torp, Søren K. Rasmussen, Kirsten Jørgensen,
Hans Thordal-Christensen, Carsten Pedersen, Some specific on NBT,
phenotyping facility, Erik Kjær Dahl (trees), Sven-Erik Jacobsen
(quinoa, protein crops), breeding vegetatively propagated,