Plant Tissue Culture detailed syllabus for Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering (BBE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the BBE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit BBE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VII scheme and its subjects refer to BBE Professional Elective-VII syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of plant tissue culture is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
CELL AND TISSUE CULTURE 9
Definition and need; Types of Methods in plant Biotechnology; Cell and Tissue Culture; Micro propagation; Callus Culture; Somatic Embryogenesis; Hairy Root Culture; Culture Medias.
Unit II
PLANT GENETIC ENGINEERING TOOLS 9
Vectors and Genetic Engineering; Agro bacterium mediated gene transfer and cloning; Agro bacterium types; Plant viruses and Genetic Engineered viruses as a tool of deliver foreign DNA; major plant viruses,Camv, TMV, BBTV, Gemini viruses etc.
Unit III
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Unit IV
SECONDARY METABOLITE PRODUCTION IN TISSUE CULTURE 9
Culture initiation, biotransformation, elicitation, hairy root culture, immobilization, permeabilization.
Unit V
GREEN HOUSE OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT 9
Hardening and acclimatization of tissue cultured plants
Course Outcomes:
- Acquire knowledge in cell and tissue culture techniques.
- Gain the knowledge about to plant genetic engineering tools.
- Learn the various applications of plant tissue culture.
- Understand the molecular concepts of disease resistance factors in plants.
- Study the development of transgenic plants on abiotic and biotic factors
- Assess about the scope and applications in plant biotechnology
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Dodds J.H., Plant Genetic Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- R.C. Dubay and Maheswari. Introduction to Microbiology, S.Chand, 2002.
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