Homework 1
After reading the relevant textbook and paper, please answer the following questions concisely in your own words.
1. Why do we have to breed for pest resistance?
2. What are the differences between breeding for pest resistance and breeding for other purposes?
3. Why do resistant cultivars break down after being used for some time?
4. How do breeders breed for pest resistance? Only give me an example that you knew before taking this class.
5. What you don’t understand from reading and want to learn more in this class?
Do not be stressful, try to simplify things and practice using common sense in a systematic way. And kindly turn in the answers on Thursday before 18.00. You will get next homework in every class, which you should turn in on the following Thursday, or otherwise noted.
Good luck and be happy with the self-learning, the skill you will need for your entire life.