IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | DEPARTMENT OF AGRONOMY | OFFICE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY | PLANT SCIENCES INSTITUTE

Spring workshop on plant transformation

GDCB 542D (1 credit)

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This is a one-credit laboratory course aiming at learning basic knowledge and technique in plant genetic transformation and molecular analysis of transgenic plants.


Who should take this course: Upon completion of this course, students should be able to do the following:
1.Make plant media 2.Transform Agrobacterium with plasmid DNA 3. Extract plasmid DNA from Agrobacterium
4. Tissue culture aseptic technique 5. Tobacco leaf disc transformation 6. Arabidopsis flower-dipping transformation
7. Maize transformation 8. Plant DNA extraction 9. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
10. Southrn blot and hydridization

Contact persons:

Kan Wang, 294-4429
Maximum enrollment: 12 students

Schedule for Spring 2006:

12:30 - 4:00 pm, Wednesdays and Fridays
February 1, 3, 15, 17, 22, 24
March 29, 31
April 5, 12