- Spring 2025
- Location: Plant Sciences Hall (room 272)
- Time: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00-12:15 am
- Office Hour: Thursday 12:15-1:00 pm (except for the first Thursday of the month)
- Prerequisites:
- AGRO 815A, 815B, and 815D,
- AGRO/ANSCI-931,
- and STAT-802 or equivalent,
- or permission of the instructor.
Suggested textbooks and Reading Materials
- Hahn, M. 2019. Molecular population genetics. Oxford.
- Bernardo, R. 2020. Breeding for quantitative traits in plants. 3rd Ed. Stemma Press.
- Lynch, M. and B. Walsh. 1998. Vol. 1: Genetics and analysis of quantitative traits. Sinauer, MA
R and statistics resources
- Basic R: Quick online reference for data input, basic statistics, and plots.
- Advanced R by Hadley Wickham.
- R Markdown: The definitive Guide by Yihui Xie et al.,
- STHDA: Statistical tools for high-throughput data analysis.
Schedule 2025
Week 1: Introduction and Overview
- 01-21 (Tue): [Lecture] Introduction about crop improvement
- [Canvas materials]
- 01-23 (Thu): [Lab] Research Project Management using RStudio, HCC, and GitHub
- Reading: [hcc doc] and [hcc-usage in the J. Yang lab]
- [HTML]