Osmania University - M.Sc (Genetics) Semester - 4-PAPER : XIV

PAPER : XIV – PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

UNIT-I PLANT GENOMICS

1.1 Organisation of nuclear and organallar genomes.
1.2 Plant gene structure and DNA domains.
1.3 Molecular markers
1.4 Genome imprinting
1.5 Functional genomics.
1.6 Proteomics, Functional proteomics.

Unit –II : MOLECULAR BASIS OF ABIOTIC STRESSES

2.1 Drought tolerance
2.2 Salt tolerance
2.3 Temperature tolerance.
2.4 Submergence tolerance
2.5 Photooxidative stress

Unit – III MOLECULAR BASIS OF BIOTIC STRESSES

3.1 Viral resistance
3.2 Bacterial resistance
3.3 Fungal resistance
3.4 Insect resistance

UNIT –IV : MOLECULAR BASIS OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

4.1 Features of plant development
4.2 Molecular basis of hormonal action in development.
4.3 Genetic and molecular analysis of embryogenesis.
4.4 Genetic and Molecular analysis of floral development.
4.5 Phytochrome and photomorphogenesis.

PRACTICALS

1. Genomic DNA isolation.
2. RAPD analysis
3. determination of copy number in the genome.
4. southern blot hybridization

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

1. Plant Molecular Biology Oxford University Press Vol.3(1986) by B.J.Miflin

2. Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2nd edition(1999) byP.J.Lea and R.C.Leegood (John Wiley and Soonks New York)

3. Plant Cell Biotechnology by M.S.Spais, F.Marituna J.M. Novais NATO ASI Series Cell Biology Vol.18 (1988)

4. Plant Molecular Biology
By D Von Wettstein, Nam Hai Chua
Life Sciences Vol.140(1991)
Pleum Press London.

5. Plant Molecular Biology 2
By R.G. Herrmann and B.A. :arkins
Life Sciences Vol 212 (1991)
Pleum Press

6. Biology and Moleuclar Biology of Plant Pathlogy
By J.A. Bailey(1986)
Ineraction s Cell Biology Vol .1
Spinger Verlas

7. Plant Gene Transfer (1989)
By C.J. Lamb, R.N. Beechy
John Willeye Sons Inc.
New York.

8. Progress in Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology
By Nijkamph J.J et al (1990)
Kluwer Academic Publishers Netherlands

9. Transgenic Plants
By Esra Galunand
A.Breiman
Imperial College Press –Singapore (1997)

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