Plant breeding is an ancient activity, dating to the very beginnings of agriculture. One of the aims of virtually every breeding project is to increase yield. This can often be brought about by selecting obvious morphological variants.
The goals of plant breeding are to produce crop varieties that boast unique and superior traits for a variety of applications. Plant breeding can be performed through many different techniques ranging from simply selecting plants with desirable characteristics for propagation, to methods that make use of knowledge of genetics and chromosomes, to more complex molecular techniques.
The mandates of this department includes teaching, research ie., handling courses on Introduction to Agricultural Botany, Fundamentals of Genetics, Cytogenetics, Fundamentals of Plant Breeding, Crop improvement and PGR related courses to UG students through quality teaching, conducting research projects. To Dissemination of knowledge on crop varieties to the farmers

The department is aims

• To ensure quality teaching in the Genetics, Cytogenetics and Plant Breeding related subjects and also to facilitate quality research work of UG
• Provide student development through training and guidance
• To Collect, evaluate, maintain and characterize the field crops and horticulture crops
• Provide knowledge to evolve superior crop varieties/hybrids with high yield, quality, biotic and abiotic stresses using classical and also using biotechnological tools
• To disseminate the knowledge on latest farm technologies to the farmers through on farm and off farm

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Training students about different Plant Breeding techniques

 
EXPOSURE VISIT TO RAMIAH GENE BANK, PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES
Ramiah Gene Bank (RGB) houses both medium term and long cold storage units for genetic conservation of orthodox seeds of agri-horticultutal crop germplasm with a capacity to store one lakh germplasm accessions.