Courses: PSS 553 Plant Breeding Technologies (3) Principles and methodologies targeting genetic gain for crop improvement. Concepts of qualitative and quantitative trait improvement. Parental germplasm, population formation, hybridization, inbreeding, genetic variance, heritability, genetic gain, concepts and applications of molecular genetic markers to identify superior germplasm for increased selction efficiency. Prereq: 471 and General Genetics. Sp,A