Plant Industrial Biotechnology

The course aims to provide students with basic and advanced concepts on the production, use and cultivation of transgenic plants and the derived plant products of industrial interest. The educational objective of the course is also to provide students with an overview of the techniques for manipulating genomes, also through hands-on laboratory experiences.

At the end of the course the student will have learnt the fundamental principles underlying plant biotechnology and their application, and have the theoretical and practical skills to identify autonomously appropriate molecular strategies that can be used to modify traits of different complexity in plants.