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CSS408 - Soil Judging

Soil Judging at OSU-Cascades

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Plant Breeding Graduate Student Community
Jamie Sherman jsherman@montana.edu
Growing the Future With the loss of plant breeding positions in the public sector, there has been a loss of the infrastructure that supports plant breeding training, including a reduction in professors with plant breeding expertise, a critical mass of students often too low to provide a stimulating learning environment, and the inability to offer courses with sufficient audience. Although studies support the positive impact of a strong community on learning, currently, students are often trained in isolation. The PBTN has been established to mitigate isolation barriers that currently limit plant breeding education at most institutions and in most plant breeding work places around the world. PBTN supports online course sharing (See list of courses). The PBTN online graduate student community is a place for students around the world to make contact with other plant breeding students, providing an opportunity to exchange ideas, develop interpersonal skills (such as communication and collaboration) and build a plant breeding student community. If you have questions about the community, graduate work in plant breeding, or career oportunities, please contact us. Jamie Sherman Director-TCAP graduate community and PBTN jsherman@montana.edu Mary Brakke Director-TCAP undergraduate community brakk001@umn.edu Deana Namuth-Covert Director-Plant Breeding Training Network (PBTN) dcovert2@unl.edu This community is funded by the Triticeae CAP project.
Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee
Jamie Sherman, Secretary
To view additional success stories click on the link in the left menu Please click here to report your plant breeding success stories. Click on TCAP logo to see the Economic impact of USDA-NIFA small grains CAPs The Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee (SCC 080) is the USDA-sponsored advisory group of representatives from land grant universities. The Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee represents national plant breeding with a focus on education in the broader sense, including providing information to the public and administrators, and encouraging the development of formal educational opportunities, continuing education, and lifelong learning. Mission: To provide a forum for leadership on issues and opportunities of strategic importance to national core competency in plant breeding research and education Membership: The PBCC members will consist of the representatives of the SCC-080 committee and others by request.

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Featured Animations

Taqman
The Taqman probe detection system used in real time PCR (also known as quantitative PCR) is illustrated in this animation. One application of this method is use in GMO detection.
Backcross Breeding
How the conventional breeding method of backcross breeding is done. This is the seventh of a series of seven animations that detail the process of crop genetic engineering. To begin at the beginning, see Overview of Crop Genetic Engineering. (To return to the animation previous to this, go to Gene Gun.)
Inhibidores del Fotosistema II
El fotosistema II es un sistema dentro del esquerma Z que interactúa para colectar energía del sol.

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Backyard Mystery Backyard Mystery is an NSF-funded bio-STEM curriculum. Materials target National Science Education Content Standards in Life Sciences for Grades 5 through 7.
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Manure Phosphorus and Surface Water Protection I: Basic Concepts of Soil and Water P This lesson focuses on the process of eutrophication; the relationship between land application of manure and soil phosphorus (P) dynamics on P delivery to surface waters; and on the P dynamics in ...
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Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit in a Plant Breeding Example In plant breeding and genetics research, plant breeders establish a hypothesis to explain how they think a particular trait is inherited, such as if it is due to one gene with complete dominance, an i...
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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Overview of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA). The eLesson will explain the key elements of the ITPGRFA and the importance of having access to gene...
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Transformation 1 - Plant Tissue Culture This lesson explains the technique of tissue culture as used in plant transformation. It discusses important issues, such as the use of selectable markers, genotype specificity, and tissue culture a...
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This project was supported in part by the National Research Initiative Competitive Grants CAP project 2011-68002-30029 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, adminstered by the University of California-Davis and by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education, National SMETE Digital Library Program, Award #0938034, administered by the University of Nebraska. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USDA or NSF.

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