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Agricultural Biotechnology

B1. Agricultural Biotechnology · Part-B: Specialized Branches

AGRI.SEED Agriculture

Seed development, viability, vigour, dormancy, testing standards and certified seed production.

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nitrogen fixation and regulation - lectins, Nod factors, nif genes, nitrogenases, leghaemoglobin, nodulins, nitrate and ammonium assimilation

  • MICRO.ECOLOGY
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signal transduction - phospholipid and calcium-calmodulin cascade, MAP kinase cascade

  • SIGNAL.TRANSDUCTION
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plant-microbe interaction - molecular biology of Agrobacterium and Rhizobium infection, forward and reverse genetics, RNA interference, transcriptional gene silencing, gene traps and T-DNA insertion lines

  • MOLBIO.GENEREG
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tissue culture and transgenic technologies (totipotency, tissue-culture media, hormones and morphogenesis, embryogenesis, cell suspension culture, micropropagation, artificial seeds, wide hybridization, anther culture and dihaploids, protoplast isolation, culture and fusion, somatic hybrids, cybrids, PEG and electroporation transformation, particle bombardment, chloroplast transformation, Ti plasmid-based transformation, T-DNA genes, borders and virulence genes, monocot transformation, binary ve

  • PLANT.TISSUECULTURE
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pest resistance (Bt toxin, protease inhibitors, lectins, alpha-amylase inhibitor)

  • AGRI.ENTOMOLOGY
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molecular breeding and genomics (principles of plant breeding, heterosis breeding, molecular markers - RFLP, RAPD, AFLP, ISSR, SNP, SCAR and SSR, mapping populations, marker-assisted selection, QTL mapping, gene pyramiding)

  • PLANT.BREEDING
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structural and functional genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, nutrigenomics, interactomics, metagenomics

  • BIOINFORMATICS
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induced systemic resistance and systemic acquired resistance

  • PLANT.PATHOLOGY