This subject explores plant breeding technologies and applied genomics across a number of commercial enterprises. Students will develop skills in conventional plant breeding methods alongside modern plant breeding techniques utilising modern tools and methods. Concepts in molecular biology, genomics, plant breeding and bioinformatics will facilitate the learning of practical skills such as grafting, plant tissue culture, nucleic acid extraction, polymerase chain reaction, the production of primers and test expression levels of interesting and desirable plant traits. A suite of molecular techniques will be evaluated for detecting genetic variation in natural populations including first-generation methods and next-generation sequencing based methods. Techniques of statistical genomics, including methods for analysing large data sets will be introduced.

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