Genomics in Agriculture

To enable students to understand:

Emerging trends of genomics in relation to Agriculture and Crops Breeding

Course Material

01 Course contents, syallabus, introdcution, pre-requisite

02 Introduction to genetics and genomics.

03 Emerging trends of genomics in relation to Agriculture and Crops Breeding. Branches of Genomics, Functional Genomics, Bioinformatics, Reverse Genetics, DNA chip or microarrays

04 Genome Structure in Prokaryotes

05 Gene cloning , genomic libraries and polymerase chain reaction

06 Genome organization and structure: Distinct components of genomes, Abundance and complexity of mRNA

07 Genome organization and structure: Normalized cDNA libraries and ESTs, Genome sequences: gene numbers, Comparative genomics

08 Genome annotation

09 Studies of the transcriptome and proteome

10 Studying the proteome

11 The gene addition approach to plant genetic engineering