Instructor(s): Thomas Clemente
Number of Credit Hours: 2
Cross-listings: PLAS 411
Prerequisites: None listed.
Description: Basic steps required to produce genetically engineered crops. Genetic engineering procedures used to develop current crops and innovations that will lead to future products. Genetic engineering process and predicting how changes in different steps of the process influence the final crop. Application of genetic engineering technology to plan the development of new genetically engineered crops.
Learning Outcomes/Course Objectives
The goal of this course is to provide the student a broad overview of the tools of biotechnology and how these tools are implemented to complement plant breeding. At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Discuss the importance of the fundamentals of plant biology and approaches to introduce genetic variation into plants.
- Describe methods to introduce reagents into plant cells through the tools of biotechnology to introduce genetic variation into plants.
- Explain how tools of biotechnology (e.g. RNAi, zinc fingers, TALEN, CRISPR) are used to make molecular changes to add genetic variation to complement plant breeding.
- Describe the technology to market pipeline for a novel plant trait introduced through the tools of biotechnology.