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
农业科学是研究农业发展的自然规律和经济规律的科学，因涉及农业环境、作物和畜牧生产、农业工程和农业经济等多种科学而具有综合性。林业科学和水产科学有时也包括在广义的农业科学范畴之内。
