0 or 3 credits
Spring 2025 Laboratory Lecture Upper Division
This is mainly a laboratory exercise course designed to help students to be more familiar with common molecular techniques used in plant pathology studies. Techniques will include DNA/RNA isolation, hybridization, sequence analyses, various PCR reactions, library construction and screening, protein isolation, and plant transformation. Lectures will cover basic principles and applied aspects of molecular studies in plant pathology, and recent advances in genomics and proteomics techniques.
Learning Outcomes1To understand the basic principles of common molecular and genomic techniques.
2To become familiar with the application of common molecular and genomic approaches in the field of plant biology/pathology.3)To obtain laboratory experience of performing common techniques used in molecular biology.
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made by Purdue students.