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I. Course Title
: Systematics of Vegetable Crops
II. Course Code
: VSC 510
III. Credit Hours
: (1+1)
IV. Why this course ?
Systematics is fundamental to our understanding of the world around us as it
provides basis for understanding the patterns of diversity on earth. Vegetable
systematics is the science of botanical diversity of vegetable crops on earth, including
variation from the level of genes within an individual to individuals, populations
and species. The primary aim of systematics is to discover all the branches of the
tree of life, document evolutionary changes occurring along those branches, and
describe all the species on earth (the tips of the branches). The secondary aim of
systematic is to analyze and synthesize information into a classification that reflects
evolutionary relationships, to organize this information into a useful, retrievable
form to gain insight into evolutionary processes that lead to diversity.
V. Aim of the course
To impart knowledge on morphological, cytological and molecular taxonomy of
vegetable crops
The course is constructed given as under:
No. Block
Unit
1.
Systematics of vegetable crops
I.
Significance of systematics
II. Origin and evolution
III. Botanical and morphological description
IV. Cytology
V. Molecular markers

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Horticultural Sciences–Vegetable Science
345
VI. Theory
Unit I
Significance of systematic
—Significance of systematics and crop diversity in vegetable
crops; Principles of classification; different methods of classification; Salient features
of international code of nomenclature of vegetable crops
Unit II
Origin and evolution
—Origin, history, evolution and distribution of vegetable crops
Unit III
Botanical and morphological description
—Botanical description of families, genera
and species covering various tropical, subtropical and temperate vegetables;
Morphological keys to identify important families, floral biology, floral formula and
diagram; Morphological description of all parts of vegetables