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Collection methods; temporary preservation of fresh materials; Preparation of herbarium packets and labelling; Permanent preservation of materials using specific mountants; Microclimatology; types of instruments and their uses

Goals of plant breeding; Plant introduction and germplasm collections; Centers of genetic diversity and origin of cultivated plants; Genetic basis of selection: pure line theory; quantitative inheritance and heritability; Apomixis; incompatibility and sterility; Haploidy and polyploidy and their significance in plant breeding; Uses of anueploids in plant breeding; Breeding methods for self and cross-fertilized crop species; Backcross breeding; mutation breeding; resistance breeding for diseases; pests and drought; Quality breeding; seed testing and certification; Cell fusion and anther culture in plant breeding; Crop domestication and utilization in medicine

Air pollution: Types of pollutants; Tissue degradation; Effects of pollution - impacts of air pollutants on crops; semi- and natural vegetation; Impacts of ozone pollution on vegetation and atmospheric deposition of heavy metals to vegetation; Impact of pollutant mixtures (e.g.; ozone and nitrogen); Acid rain; Consequences of air pollution for biodiversity; modifying influence of climate change and impact of air pollutants on vegetation

Studies on the origin and distribution of phloem should be reviewed; Primary phloem; sieve elements secondary phloem; structure and components of secondary phloem; companion cells; phloem fibres and sieve; parenchyma cells; Periderm - meaning and occurrence; Phellogen and phelloderm; initiation of periderm; Activity of phellogen; distribution of lenticels; ultra structure of plant cell wall; the pit fields chemical aspect of cell wall lignin; cellulose; hemicellulose etc; principal uses of phloem cells

Importance of biogeography; Distribution of species; genera and families: Endemic species and genera; Pan tropical species and genera; Discontinuous species and genera; Factors of distribution (climatic; edaphic; geographic and dispersal effects); Theory of tolerance; Floristic regions of the world; Vegetation mapping

Sequence retrieval and analysis; bioalgorithms; biological databases and their search; sequence alignment and construction of phylogenetic trees; Gene predictions; RNA and protein structure prediction; Use of bioinformatics tools in biotechnology biopharma

Phytochemical Methods: Electrophoresis; chromatography; anatomical and histological techniques; To demonstrate chemical processes involved in variety of biologically important processes e.g.; photosynthesis; mitochondrial respiration; nitrogen fixation; and carbon transfer etc

The chemical structure and mode of action of fungicides; Factors influencing fungicides; The evaluation of fungicides in the laboratory; Methods of application of fungicides; Different treatments of lumber with fungicides; Application of Nematicides; Current trends in the control of plant diseases

Chromosomal organization in relation to gene environment; genetic recombination in population - the use of genetic system in evolution; the origin of species hybridization its origin and its significance polyploidy - occurrence; distribution and its importance

Review of root; stem and leaf initiations in plants; Studies on the epidermal tissue system; their functions and distribution - stomata; cuticle; trichomes; epiblems; piliferous layer; The ground or fundamental tissue systems; their function and distribution - cortex; endodermis; pericycle; pith and pith rays (parenchyma; collenchyma and sclerenchyma); The vascular tissue system: elements of vascular bundles - xylem: protoxylem and metaxylem; phloem - protophloem and metaphloem; Cambium: types of vascular bundles; A comprehensive knowledge of leaves - leaf epidermis; mesophyll palisade parenchyma; spongy parenchyma and vascular bundles of gymnosperms and angiosperms