CoA, Vellayani

Introductory course in plant biotechnology covering fundamental aspects of DNA structure and metabolism, recombinant DNA technology, transgenics, molecular markers, sequencing, PCR, genomics, cell and tissue culture and also IPR, biosafety and bioethics related to biotechnology

Nucleic acid structure and metabolism covering genome and chromatin organisation, DNA replication, repair, recmbination, transcription, translation and gene regulation

Molecular techniques employed in plant breeding including transgenic breeding,  genotyping  and ,gene mapping using molecular markers, marker assisted selection, gene pyramiding, QTL mapping and map based isolation of genes and QTL