
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