Research and Investigative Fields of the Department

  • Analysis and profiling of important gene expression in agricultural and medicinal plants in relation to stresses and secondary metabolites
  • Crop modeling * Tissue culture of endangered and endemic plants
  • Sustainable agriculture and intercropping
  • Increasing crop production
  • Organic agriculture
  • Production of transgenic plants and genetic engineering for important agronomic traits
  • Isolation, cloning, and evaluation of gene structure and function
  • Application of biotechnology methods to increase secondary metabolite production
  • Biopharming and production of recombinant pharmaceutical proteins
  • Evaluation of agricultural and medicinal plant responses to environmental stresses
  • Metabolic engineering in plant and microbial systems
  • Weed management
  • Improving tolerance to abiotic stresses
  • Plant genetic diversity
  • Genomics and transcriptomics
  • Molecular basis of plant-pathogen interaction
  • Genetic engineering, plant tissue culture, and production of transgenic plants
  • Proteomics and protein engineering
  • Bioinformatics methods for the analysis of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and phenotypic data
  • Identification of genes involved in metabolic pathways
  • Identification of candidate genes involved in genetic variations related to quantitative traits
  • Gene expression analysis under different physiological conditions