BIOTECHNOLOGY TOOLS FOR CONSERVATIONAND USE OF PLANTS - A School Play for Senior Students

Biotechnology tools conservation and use of plants

PARTICIPATE AND LEARN - PAL

BIOTECHNOLOGY TOOLS
FOR CONSERVATION
AND USE OF PLANTS

A School Play for Senior Students

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Rome, 2007

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Table of contents

Part I [268Kb]

Part II [809Kb]

Scene One - Friday morning, breakfast time
Scene Two - Walking through the cassava field
Scene Three - Scenes from the plant tissue culture room

Part III [790Kb]

Scene Four - Discussion on plant genetic resources (PGR) and conservation
Scene Five - A discussion on the importance of PGR

Part IV [994Kb]

Scene Six - A discussion on biotechnology tools, cyropreservation equipment
Scene Seven - Tissue culture and cyropreservation

Part V [568Kb]

Scene Eight - Tissue culture
Scene Nine - Tissue culture and micropropagation

Part VI [657Kb]

Scene Ten - Diseases affecting cassava
Scene Eleven - Cassava flowers

Part VII [796Kb]

Scene Twelve - Structure and coordination facilities of a gene bank
Scene Thirteen - Marker-assisted selection and conservation, Equipment used in DNA analysis

Part VIII [849Kb]

Scene Fourteen - DNA analysis - The application of MAS
Scene Fifteen - A visit from the grandparents
Scene Sixteen - Project discussions
Scene Seventeen - Project presentation