Pt. I: Plant Tissue Culture -- Introduction -- Laboratory Organization -- Nutrition Medium -- Sterilization Techniques -- Types of Culture -- Micropropagation -- Cell Suspension and Secondary Metabolites -- In Vitro Production of Haploids -- Protoplast Isolation and Fusion -- Somaclonal Variation -- Germplasm Storage and Cryopreservation, Pt. II: Genetic Material and Its Organization -- Genetic Material -- Organization of DNA and Gene Expression, Pt. III: Recombinant DNA Technology -- Basic Techniques -- Gene Cloning: Cutting and Joining DNA Molecules -- Gene Cloning: Vectors -- Gene Cloning: cDNA and Genomic Cloning and Analysis of Cloned DNA Sequences -- Polymerase Chain Reaction -- In Vitro Mutagenesis -- Transposon Genetic Elements and Gene Tagging -- Gene Isolation -- Molecular Markers and Marker-Assisted Selection -- Gene Transfer in Plants -- Transgenics in Crop Improvement -- Genomics -- Bioinformatics -- Intellectual Property Rights

1. Plant biotechnology