Agriculture Biotechnology detailed syllabus scheme for Biotechnology (BT), 2019 regulation has been taken from the University of Mumbai official website and presented for the Bachelor of Engineering students. For Course Code, Course Title, Test 1, Test 2, Avg, End Sem Exam, Team Work, Practical, Oral, Total, and other information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For all other Mumbai University Biotechnology 7th Sem Syllabus 2019 Pattern, do visit BT 7th Sem 2019 Pattern Scheme. The detailed syllabus scheme for agriculture biotechnology is as follows.
Agriculture Biotechnology Syllabus for Biotechnology BE 7th Sem 2019 Pattern Mumbai University
Prerequisites:
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Course Objectives:
- To understand basic plant biology and breeding methods.
- To gain knowledge about transgenic plant analysis, principle behind generation of herbicide and pest tolerant plants.
- To understand the stress condition in plants and methods to overcome it.
- To design methods for crop improvement.
- To analyse applications based on molecular farming.
Course Outcomes:
- Students will be able to:
- Apply the transgenic methods to develop better quality crops.
- Understand the advantages and drawbacks of engineered plants and modify them accordingly.
- Harness the plants for improved quality biomaterials.
Module 1
Agricultural Microbiology: Microbial groups in soil, Plant and Microbe interactions. Plant pathogens, Biological nitrogen fixation, Microflora of Rhizosphere and Phyllo sphere microflora, microbes in composting, Beneficial microorganisms in Agriculture: Biofertilizer (Bacterial Cyanobacterial and Fungal), microbial insecticides, Microbial agents for control of Plant diseases 05
Module 2
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Module 3
Transgenic Plants: Transgenic Plant Analysis: screening on selection media, PCR, Intact Transgene Integration characterization, Real time PCR, Transgene expression, western blot analysis. 05 Regulations and Biosafety. Field Testing of Transgenic Plants- Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) process, e.g. the case of Bt Maize, Agronomic Performance, Risk analysis. Clean-gene technology.
Module 4
Genetic manipulation of herbicide tolerance: The use of herbicides in modern agriculture, types of compounds used as herbicides, Strategies for engineering herbicide tolerance – Glyphosate tolerance, Phosphinothricin, Prospects for plant detoxification systems, Commercialization of herbicide-tolerant plants to date, The environmental impact of herbicide-tolerant crops, Development of Superweeds. 03
Module 5
Biotic and Abioticstress: Abiotic stress: Acclimatization and crop adaptation to water stress, salinity stress, temperature stress, heat and cold, Photo oxidative stress, nutrient stress, heavy metal stress, metabolite engineering for abiotic stress tolerance Biotic stress: plant response to pathogens and herbivores, biochemical and molecular basis of host plant resistance, toxins of fungi and bacteria, systemic and induced resistance, pathogen derived resistance, genetic engineering for biotic stress resistance 06
Module 6
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Module 7
Improvement of crop yield and quality: Genetic manipulation of fruit ripening, softening, genetic modification of ethylene biosynthesis. Golden rice and Biofortified rice. Engineering plant protein composition for improved nutrition. The genetic manipulation of crop yield by enhancement of photosynthesis 04
Module 8
Molecular farming: Farming of carbohydrates (e.g.starch, polyfructans) Metabolic engineering of Lipids (e.g. Bioplastics) Molecular farming of proteins (e.g.oleosin system:hirudinand insulin production). Medically related proteins (e.g.custom made antibodies, Edible vaccines. 04
Term work
Term work shall consist of minimum eight tutorials from entire syllabus which are to be given at regular intervals Batch wise. Tutorials: 20 marks Attendance: 05 marks Total: 25 Marks
Assessment
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Reference Books:
- Plant biotechnology-The genetic manipulations of plants by Slater, A., Scott, N. and Fowler, M., Oxford University press
- Principles of Plant Breeding by Allard R W 1960 .Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.
- Plant Biotechnology and Genetics: Principles, Techniques, and Applications Edited by C. Neal Stewart, Jr.
- Stress biology, by U.Chakraborty, Bishwanath Chakraborty, 2005. Narosa Publishing House.
- Agricultural Microbiology by D. J. Bagyaraj, G. Rangaswami, Prentice Hall of India Pvt Ltd.
For detail syllabus of all other subjects of Biotechnology (BT) 7th Sem 2019 regulation, visit BT 7th Sem Subjects syllabus for 2019 regulation.