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| SEC 421 | Tree Breeding | 2+0+0 | ECTS:3 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of FOREST ENGINEERING | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face, Practical | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | Prof. Dr. İbrahim TURNA | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to provide the students with a general knowledge on vegetative propagation for tree breeding, to enable them to understand best reproduction methods, to help them how to search for new tree breeding criteria |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | summarise the definition and benefits of tree breeding | 5 | 1 | | LO - 2 : | describe the tree breeding methods for tree breeding applications | 4 | 1 | | LO - 3 : | apply various techniques of vegetative propagation for tree breeding | | 1,2 | | LO - 4 : | present before an audience the results and outcome of any exercise | 7 | 5 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| The definition and content of tree breeding, Hardy-Weinberg distribution, factors exchanged in gene frequency in a population, seed sources, offspring trials and measurement of heredity degree, tree breeding methods, species and origin experiments, geographic variation in forest trees, protect of gene resources in forest trees, vegetative propagation, genetic structure of a tree population, conservation of genetic sources, genetic variation and resource of genetic variation, natural selection, genetic variety. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction and basic definition | | | Week 2 | Mendel population and Chi-Square test | | | Week 3 | Hardy-Weinberg distribution | | | Week 4 | Genetic structure of a panmictic population | | | Week 5 | Factors exchanged in gene frequency in a population | | | Week 6 | Factors exchanged in gene frequency in a population | | | Week 7 | Seed sources | | | Week 8 | Homework, offspring trials and measurement of heredity degree | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Tree breeding methods | | | Week 11 | Tree breeding methods | | | Week 12 | Species and origin experiments | | | Week 13 | Geographic variation in forest trees | | | Week 14 | Öğrenci sunumu | | | Week 15 | Protect of gene resources in forest trees | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | Yahyağlu, Z., Güney, D., "AĞAÇ ISLAHI" Ders Notu, Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, Orman Fakültesi, Ders Notları yayın No:93, Trabzon, 2013. | | | |
| 1 | Ürgenç, S., 1982. Orman Ağaçları Islahı, İ.Ü. Yayın No:2836, Orman Fakültesi Yayın No:293, İstanbul. | | | 2 | Şimşek, Y., 1993. Orman Ağaçları Islahına Giriş, Ormancılık Araştırma Enstitüsü Yayınları, Muhtelif Yayınlar Serisi No: 65, Ankara, 312 s. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 12/11/2016 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 02/01/2017 | 1 | 50 | | |
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