Subsections
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- History of plant biology from crop origins to domestication, Genetics behind the crop domestication, Genetic improvement of plant architecture for agriculture using gene editing technology(CRISPER-Cas9). Genetically modified food and sustainable agriculture: Plant breeding for improved health, Constrains in producing sufficient food, Enhancing plant productivity by generating drought and salt tolerant plants
- Plant stem cells and the concept of totipotency: Stem cell niche organization, a comparison in animals and plants, Specification of stem cells in shoot apex, root apex and vascular bundles, Cell differentiation and the concept of lineage dependent development of plant.
- Plant regeneration: cellular origins and molecular mechanisms: Regeneration in green algae and bryophytes, regeneration in seed plants, Epigenetic control of regeneration, impact of developmental and environmental constraints on regeneration
- Maintenance of plant genome: Genome to epigenome Reprogramming of plant genome during gametogenesis and seed development, Role of DNA methyaltrasnferases and demethyalases in gene regulation, Characterization of plant epigenomes, Tools and techniques required to study epigenome.
- Plant-plant and plant environment interactions: Role of light in phenotypic plasticity, Shade avoidance vs. shade tolerance, Somatic competition, Root plasticity in response to nutrients, Role of fires in seed germination.
- Molecular biology of abiotic stress responses: Cold, high temperature, submergence, dehydration, salinity and drought.
- Plant immunity: Organism that attacks plants, What kind of plant pathogen interaction leads in to disease, How do plants perceive pathogens and response to them, Role of FLS2 in bacterial pathogen perception, Systemic acquired resistance against the viruses, Cultural practices to protect plants from pathogens.
- Plant Physiology and Development, Sixth Edition by Lincoln Taiz, Eduardo Zeiger, Ian M. Møller, and Angus Murphy, published by Sinauer Associates.
- Campbell Biology, 12th Edition; Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Rebecca Orr, Person.
- THE ARABIDOPSIS BOOK; https://bioone.org/journals/the-arabidopsis-book/current
