Course Material
- Week 1: General features of viruses, viral architecture,
- Week 2: Classification, dissemination and replication of single and double - stranded DNA/RNA viruses
- Week 3: Plant viral taxonomy, Virus biology and virus transmission
- Week 4: Molecular biology of plant virus transmission
- Week 5: Symptomatology of virus-infected plants: (External and Internal Symptoms)
- Week 6: Metabolism of virus-infected plants
- Week 7: Resistance to viral infection
- Week 8: Methods in molecular virology
- Week 9: Mid Term Examinations
- Week 10: History, characteristics and classification
- Week 11: Evolutionary tendencies in Monera (Bacteria, actinomycetes and cyanobacteria)
- Week 12: Morphology, genetic recombination,
- Week 13: locomotion and reproduction in bacteria
- Week 14: Bacterial metabolism (respiration, fermentation, photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation)
- Week 15: Importance of bacteria with special reference to application in various modern sciences specially agriculture
- Week 16: application in various modern sciences like biotechnology and genetic engineering
- Week 17: Symptoms and control of major bacterial diseases in Pakistan
- Week 18: Final Term examinations
- Chapters 18
- Department Botany
- Teacher
Mr. Rameez Hussain