Plant Biotechnology
Established regeneration and transformation protocols for cabbage and cauliflower
Plant transformation of the following Plants: Tobacco, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Poplar and Arabidopsis.
Cloning, Vector design and construction in plant transformation vectors.
Northern, Southern PCR, RT-PCR techniques to monitor the presence and expression of the transgene.
Developed various immunological based assay system using monoclonal antibodies to monitor the expression of crystal proteins in transgenic plants.
Identified, developed and supervised research projects for insect, viral and fungal resistance in plants using genetic engineering.
Molecular Biology/Genomics
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