Agricultural Biotechnology
The course was started in 2004 and has been successfully running with good placement record relatively. The course runs under the Department of Botany with well provided teaching faculty. Scope for finding a job with this course is much higher compared to other applied subjects like Biotechnology, Microbiology and Biochemistry. The curriculum includes basic as well as diverse areas related to agriculture and biotechnology as well. These include Biostatistics - taught by M. V. Subba Rao, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics - taught by K. Uma Devi and few other papers include Seed Technology, Plant Breeding, Plant Metabolic Engineering, Genetic Engineering etc. The students are well guided for entrance exams like CSIR and GATE.
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