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X. Suggested Reading
BD Singh and Singh AK (Eds). 2015. 
Marker-assisted Plant Breeding: Principles and Practices
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Springer.
Henry RJ. (Editor). 2001.
 Plant Genotyping: The DNA Fingerprinting of Plants, 
CABI Publishing.
Henry R (ed.) 2013. Molecular Markers in Plants. Wiley and Blackwell Publication, Iowa USA,
196 p.
Lewin B. 2008. Genes IX. Jones and Bartlett.
Karp A, Isaac PG and Ingram DS. 1998. 
Molecular Tools for Screening Biodiversity– Plants
and Animals.
Chapman and Hall, London.
Tuberosa R, Graner A and Frison E (eds.). 2014. Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources, Volume
1. Managing, Sequencing and Mining Genetic Resources. Springer Science, New York,
825 p.
Varshney RK and Tuberosa R (eds.) 2007. Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement Vol 2: Genomics
Applications in Crops. Springer Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 509 p.
I. Course Title
: Plant Biosecurity
II. Course Code
: PGR 509
III. Credit Hours
: 1(1+0)
IV. Why this course ?
Safe transboundary movement of germplasm to biosecureindia against the ravages
of exotic pests is important and hence need to understand the basics.
V. Aim of the course
To educate about protecting the economy, environment and plant health from pests
and disease including preventing new pests and diseases from arriving, and helping
to control outbreaks when they do occur.
VI. Theory
Unit I
History of biosecurity, concept of biosecurity, components of biosecurity, Quarantine,
Invasive Alien Species, biowarfare, emerging/ resurgence of insects, pests and
diseases.

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Unit II
National Regulatory Mechanism and International Agreements/ Conventions, viz.,
Agreement on Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures/ World
Trade Organization (WTO), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), International
Standards for Phytosanitary Measures, pest risk analysis, risk assessment models,
pest information system, early warning and forecasting system, use of Global
Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) for plant
biosecurity, pest/ disease and epidemic management, strategies for combating risks
and costs associated with agroterrorism event, mitigation planning, integrated
approach for biosecurity.
Unit III
Biosafety, policies and regulatory mechanism, Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and
its implications, Issues related to release of genetically modified crops.