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GP501 PRINCIPLES OF GENETICS
GP502 PRINCIPLES OF CYTOGENETICS
GP503 PRINCIPLES OF PLANT BREEDING
GP504 PRINCIPLES OF QUANTITATIVE GENETICS
GP505 MUTAGENESIS AND MUTATION BREEDING
GP506 POPULATION GENETICS
GP507 HETEROSIS BREEDING
GP508 CELL BIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR GENETICS
GP509 BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT
GP510 BREEDING
GP511 BREEDING CEREALS, FORAGES AND SUGARCANE
GP512 BREEDING LEGUMES, OILSEEDS AND FIBRE CROPS
GP513 BREEDING FOR QUALITY TRAITS
GP514 GENE REGULATION AND EXPRESSION
GP515 MAINTENANCE BREEDING, CONCEPTS OF VARIETY REL
AND SEED PRODUCTION
GP 516@ GERMPLASM COLLECTION, EXCHAN
GP 517 DATA BASE MANAGEMENT, EVALUATION AND UTILIZ
OF PGR
GP591 MASTER’S SEMINAR
GP599 MASTER’S RESEARCH
GP601 PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES AND THEIR UTILIZATION
GP602 ADVANCES IN QUANTITATIVE GENETICS
GP603 GENOMICS IN CROP IMPROVEMENT
GP604 CELLULAR AND CHROMOSOMAL MANIPULA
IMPROVEMENT
GP605 ADVANCED PLANT BREEDING SYSTEMS
GP606 CROP-EVOLUTION
GP607 BREEDING DESIGNER CROPS
GP608 ADVANCES IN BREEDING OF MAJOR FIELD CROPS
GP609 MICROBIAL GENETICS
GP610@@ IN SITU AND EX SITUCONSERVATION OF GERMPLASM
GP 691 DOCTORAL SEMINAR I
GP 692 DOCTORAL SEMINAR II
GP 699 DOCTORAL RESEARCH

ENETICS AND PLANT BREEDING
Course Contents
GP 501 PRINCIPLES OF GENETICS 2+1
Objective
This course is aimed at understanding the basic concepts of genetics,
helping students to develop their analytical, quantitative and problemsolving
skills from classical to molecular genetics.
Theory
UNIT I
Beginning of genetics; Cell structure and cell division; Early concepts of
inheritance, Mendel's laws; Discussion on Mendel’s paper, Chromosomal
theory of inheritance.
UNIT II
Multiple alleles,Gene interactions. Sex determination, differentiation and
sex-linkage, Sex-influenced and sex-limited traits; Linkage-detection,
estimation; Recombination and genetic mapping in eukaryotes, Somatic
cell genetics, Extra chromosomal inheritance.
UNIT III
Population - Mendelian population – Random mating population -
Frequencies of genes and genotypes-Causes of change: Hardy-Weinberg
equilibrium.
UNIT IV
Structural and numerical changes in chromosomes; Nature, structure and
replication of the genetic material; Organization of DNA in chromosomes,
Genetic code; Protein biosynthesis.
UNIT V
Genetic fine structure analysis, Allelic complementation, Split genes,
Transposable genetic elements, Overlapping genes, Pseudogenes,
Oncogenes, Gene families and clusters.
UNIT VI
Regulation of gene activity in prokaryotes; Molecular mechanisms of
mutation, repair and suppression; Bacterial plasmids, insertion (IS) and
transposable (Tn) elements; Molecular chaperones and gene expression.
Gene regulation in eukaryotes, RNA editing.
UNIT VII
Gene isolation, synthesis and cloning, genomic and cDNA libraries, PCRbased
cloning, positional cloning; Nucleic acid hybridization and immunochemical
detection; DNA sequencing; DNA restriction and modification,
Anti-sense RNA and ribozymes; Micro-RNAs (miRNAs).
UNIT VIII
Genomics and proteomics; Functional and pharmacogenomics;
Metagenomics.
UNIT IX
Methods of studying polymorphism at biochemical and DNA level;
Transgenic bacteria and bioethics; Gene silencing; genetics of mitochondria
and chloroplasts.

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The Plant Sciences Syllabus for ICAR JRF (Indian Council of Agricultural Research Junior Research Fellowship) Exam is as follows:


UNIT-I:

Importance of Agriculture in national economy; basic principles of crop production; cultivation of rice, wheat, chickpea, pigeon-pea, sugarcane, groundnut, tomato, potato and mango Major soils of India, role of NPK and their deficiency symptoms

UNIT-II:

Structure and function of cell organelles; mitosis and meiosis; Mendelian genetics; elementary knowledge of photosynthesis; respiration, and transpiration; structure and functions of carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, enzymes and vitamins Major pests and diseases of rice, wheat, cotton, chickpea, sugarcane and their management

UNIT-III

Characteristics of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, differences between fungi, bacteria, mycoplasmas and viruses; physical and chemical basis of heredity; chromosome structure; genes/operon concept; protein biosynthesis; transformation, recombination, heterosis; Elements of economic botany; integrated diseases management; sterilisation, disinfection and pasteurization; Kochs postulates; aetiological agents of rusts, smuts, powdery/downy mildews, wilts, yellows, mosaic, necrosis, enations, blights and witches-broom; pH, buffer, vitamins, role of plant hormones in seed germination and dormancy; pollination/fertilization in flowering plants; methods of seed testing; breeders, foundation and certified seeds; seed production in self and cross pollinated crops, nitrate assimilation; biological nitrogen fixation and other uses of microorganisms in agriculture.

UNIT-IV
Food and industry; composting and biogas production Important rural development programmes in India; organizational set up of agricultural research, education and extension in India.