A ten week online course, Plant Breeding for Drought Tolerance, is planned to be offered at Colorado State University August 20-October 26, 2012. The course will focus on plant breeding strategies and practices directed toward improving plant performance in moisture-stressed environments. Concepts for this intensive, one-credit graduate level course include:

• Understanding the target environment
• Determining which phenotypic traits to use in selection practices
• Understanding transgenic approaches
• Learning from successful examples of improving drought tolerance in a variety of crops
• Integrating techniques learned in the course into a breeding or research program strategy
• Reviewing quantitative trait locus analysis for drought tolerance

More information about the online course will be available by May 1,2012. If you would like to be added to our contact list, please send an email to Annie Heiliger at Annie.Heiliger@ColoState.edu