Genetics, Agriculture, and Biotechnology

A short, richly illustrated guide to the tools of crop biotechnology: conventional breeding, tissue culture, marker assisted selection, genetic engineering and molecular diagnostics. A fast way to understand what GM crops are and what else biotech does for farming.

ISAAA

A complete course in 29 lectures on plant tissue culture, micropropagation, somatic embryogenesis, gene transfer, transgenic plants and molecular markers. Great for agronomy students preparing exams.

ICAR eCourse, AgriMoon

Covers the main methods for developing new crop varieties, from hybridization and backcrossing to mutation breeding. A full chapter explains the novel traits that molecular genetics and biotechnology bring to breeding programs.

Walter R. Fehr and Walter P. Suza