Crop breeding is not only the science researching crop breeding principles, breeding methods and important traits, but also practical science greatly related to biological production. Crop breeding is a required course for agronomy specialty. This course systematically describes the breeding objectives, genetic resources, breeding methods (including selection breeding, cross breeding, heterosis utilization, mutation breeding, distant breeding and ploidy breeding, population recurrent selection, biotechnology utility in crop breeding, and so on), breeding methods for special traits (such as disease and pest resistance breeding, stress resistance breeding and crop quality improvement ) and seed production.
Agriculture Engineering
农业工程是为农业生产和农村生活服务的综合性工程技术及原理。它以土壤、肥料、农业气象、育种、栽培、饲养、农业经济等学科为依据，综合应用各种工程技术，为农业生产提供各种工具、设施和能源，以求创造最适于农业生产的环境，改善农业劳动者的工作、生活条件。
