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Principles of inheritance
Genotypic variation
Other forms of heritable variation
Quantitative variation and heritability
Novel sources of genetic variation
The practice of plant breeding
Defining breeding goal(s)
Defining breeding goal(s), contd
Identifying relevant sources of genetic variation
Choice of crossing parents
Selection in segregating populations: phenotypic vs genotypic
Multilocation, multiyear testing
Pedigree records
Breeding methods
Plant Breeders' rights
New technologies for plant breeding
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Pedigree records

Important both for understanding your own germplasm, but also for regulatory reasons – often the pedigree of a new variety is required as part of its documentation.

The convention is to place the female parent first: thus AxB (or A/B) means that A was the female parent and B the male.

(AxB)xC (or A/B//C) means that the A x B hybrid was crossed as female to C.

A/B*3 is short-hand for A/B//B///B, ie the A x B hybrid was crossed as female to B, and then this hybrid was crossed as female to B again.