Plant Biotechnology

Staff:

1.	Prof. C. S. Desai	I/C HOD and Assistant Professor
2.	Prof. N. R. Dattagonde	Assistant Professor
3.	Dr. M. V. Jagadale	Assistant Professor
4.	Dr. M. M. Desai	Assistant Professor
5.	Mr. G. S. Kadam	Laboratory Assistant
6.	Mr. S. U. Dhumal	Laboratory Attendent

Courses offered:

Plant Biotechnology Courses:

Sr. No.	Course No.	Course Title	Credit
1.	BOT-111	Basic Botany-I	2+1
2.	BT-113	Introduction to Biotechnology	2+1
3.	BT-112	Basic Genetics	2+1
4.	BT-111	Cell Biology	2+0
5.	BT-112	Basic Genetics	2+1
6.	BOT/ZOO-121	Biodiversity and its Conservation	2+0
7.	BT-124	Plant Tissue Culture	2+1
8.	BT-125	Molecular Biology	2+1
9.
10.	BOT-232	Plant Physiology	2+1
11.	BT-236	Recombinant DNA Technology	2+1
12.	BT-248	Plant Genetic Transformation	2+1
13.	BT-3514	Molecular Marker Technology	2+0
14.	BIOCHEM- 241	General Biochemistry	3+1
15.	BT-249	Classical and Molecular Cytogenetics	2+1
16.	BT-3515	Genomics and Proteomics	3+0
17.	BT-3511	Molecular Genetics	2+0
18.	BT-3512	Nanobiotechnology	2+0
19.	PBTEL-361	Plant Tissue Culture and its Applications	2+1
20.	PBTEL-362	Principles and Applications of Plant Genetic Transformation	2+1
21.	PBTEL-363	Applications of Genomics and Proteomics	2+1
22.	PBTEL-364	Molecular Breeding in Field Crops	2+1
23.	PBTEL-365	Molecular Breeding of Horticultural Crops and Forest Trees	2+1
24.	PBTEL-366	Epigenetics and Gene Regulation	2+1

Agriculture Courses:

Sr. No.	Course No.	Course Title	Credit
1.	AGRO-111	Crop Production Technology	2+1
2.	PB -121	Principles of Plant Breeding	2+1
3.	HORT-121	Production technologies for Horticultural Crops	2+1/
4.	ENT./Pl.PATH- 231	Fundamentals of Crop Protection	2+1
5.	PB-232	Breeding of Field Crops	2+1

Projects:

During the final year, students are allotted to work on individual projects relevant to Plant tissue culture, Genetic transformation, Molecular breeding and hybridity testing.