Plant Breeding

Texas A&M University

United States of America, College Station

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Texas A&M University

United States of America , College Station

Key Facts

Program Level

Master by Course Work

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Campuses

Main Site

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake Deadlines24-Aug-2022 December-2021

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Duration 24 month(s)

Tuition Fee

USD 17,073 / year

Apply Date December-2021

Next Intake 24-Aug-2022

Plant Breeding

About

Overview Our Plant Breeding and genetics faculty members at Texas A&M University rely on conventional and molecular breeding techniques to modify specific targets such as yield potential, crop quality, biotic and abiotic stress resistance, and/or reduced crop production costs. Breeders of grain crops such as corn, wheat, sorghum, and rice have developed varieties that have improved grain yield, resist diseases and insect pests, resist lodging, and possess improved nutrition or processing quality.Our faculty have developed genotypes of bioenergy crops such as sweet sorghums, sugar cane, forage sorghums, and perennial grasses with exceptional sugar production per unit land area for ethanol production or biomass for cellulosic ethanol production. Cotton breeders and geneticists in Soil and Crop Sciences have developed unique interspecies lines through hybridization of different species of cotton as well as developed strains with exceptional fiber quality and drought tolerance. Our plant breeding faculty work with sugar cane, rice, cotton, corn, cowpea, wheat, oat, sorghum, perennial grasses, turf grasses, forage legumes, and peanutThe Graduate Program of the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences is designed to prepare students for careers in research, teaching, extension, industry, and management of agronomic enterprises. Members of the faculty have expertise in biological sciences, biotechnology, cereal chemistry, crop breeding and genetics, cooperative extension technology, crop physiology, cytogenetics, ecosystem management, environmental physics, environmental sciences, environmental soil science, environmental toxicology, genetics, invasive weed species, microbiology, molecular biology, molecular genetics, physical sciences, plant physiology, protein chemistry, quantitative plant genetics, soil chemistry, soil fertility, soil genesis and classification, soil hydrological sciences, soil microbiology, soil mineralogy, soil physics, turfgrass science, turfgrass management, urban ecosystem management, water quality, watershed management, and weed science I want to find another Master Course

Plant Breeding programs offered by Texas A&M University in Soil and Crop Sciences seek to alter the genetic composition of plants to improve crop characteristics.

Disciplines

Plant & Crop Sciences

Soil Science

Requirements

Other Requirements

1 : A complete application through the Apply Texas on line application processThe statement of purpose describing the student’s career goals and background informationThree letters of recommendation are required, preferably from faculty or advisors, which evaluate your potential for graduate studies.Acceptance by a professor in Soil and Crop Sciences to serve as the student’s graduate advisory committee chair