Lecturer: Dr. Hagit Kvit
Course Description:
The course presents different topics in plant, animal, insect, microorganism, and food biotechnology. It focuses on the study of genetic engineering technologies in plants.
Course Objectives:
● To gain a basic understanding of DNA technologies and modern biotechnology
● Understanding the molecular and physiological basis of the technologies, and their implementation in food and feed crops
● Understand the potential of genetic engineering in crop plants, and review the updated achievements.
Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- To explain the application of genetic engineering in plants.
- To assess the difficulties of its implementation.
- To recognize the advantages and the disadvantages of agricultural biotechnology.
- To demonstrate how biotechnology can be applied to improve the agricultural properties of various crops.
- Teacher: Hagit Kvitt