Biotech Updates

Training on Marker Assisted Breeding

July 18, 2008

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics' (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).