Plant Biotechnology and Agriculture: Prospects for the 21st Century

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Introduction to basic p rocedures in plant biotechnology

2.1 Gene structure and is olation

2.2 Control of gene expression and silencing

2.3 Pr otein targeting and expression

2.4 Plant genomics and transcriptom ics

2.5 Plant proteomics

2.6 Plant metabolomics

2.7 Ot her omics

2.8 Genome sequencing, models for developing synteny map s

2.9 Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation

2.10 Other technologies of plant transformation

2.11 Plant tissue culture

Breeding biotechnologies

3.1 Somatic (asex ual) genetics procedures (haploids, protoplasts, cell selection)

3 .2 Marker-assisted selection

3.3 Genetic engineering/transformatio n

Plant germplasm

4.1 Micropropagation

4.2 Generation of pathogen-free plants

4.3 Germplasm storage a nd preservation

4.4 Forward and reverse genetic approaches, includ ing advances in identifying and exploiting natural var