July 18, 2008
Source:
CropBiotech Update
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid
Tropics's (ICRISAT) Center of Excellence in Genomics (CEG),
supported by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government
of India, is pleased to announce its second Training Course
entitled “Molecular methodologies for assessing and applying
genetic diversity in crop breeding” to be held 17-28
November 2008 at the ICRISAT Campus at Patancheru, Greater
Hyderabad, India.
The course will provide participants a hands-on opportunity to
gain expertise in the use of molecular markers (SSRs, SNPs and
DArTs) in diversity analysis, gene/QTL mapping and
marker-assisted breeding.
Details about the training course and online submission of
applications are available at
http://www.icrisat.org/CEG/ . For questions, please
contact Rajeev Varshney (r.k.varshney@cgiar.org). |
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