Courses in College of Agriculture, Vellayani

MBB 501 Principles of Biotechnology
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


MBB 502 Fundamentals of Molecular Biology
CoA, Vellayani

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


MBB 507 Molecular Breeding
CoA, Vellayani

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