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VIII. Teaching Methods/ Activities
– Lectures
– Assignments (Reading/ Writing)
– Text Books
– Student presentations
– Experimentation
– Group discussion
– Group work
– Laboratory exercises
– Scientific journals and periodicals
IX. Learning outcome
After successful completion of this course the students are expected to be able to
– Utilize the methods and tools of tissue culture and recombinant DNA technologies
for mulberry and silkworm improvement.
X. Suggested Reading
Burrell MM. 1993. 
Enzymes of Molecular Biology
. Humana Press Inc., NewYork.
Sambrook J and Russel DW. 2001. 
Molecular cloning- A Laboratory Manual
3
rd
Ed. 
Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory Press. Cold Spring Harbor
, Newyork.
Smith S and Helentyaris T, 
DNA finger printing and plant variety production.
Genome mapping
in plant edited by Andrew H Paterson R G Lands Company.
Kendrew J. 1994. 
The Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology
. Blackwell Scientific Publications,
Oxford.
Old RW and Primrose SB. 1994. 
Principles of gene manipulation: An Introduction to genetic
engineering
, 5
th
Ed. Blackwell Scientific Publications
, 
U.S.A.
Hansen G and Wright MS. 1999. ‘‘Recent advances in the transformation of plants’’
. Trends in
Biotech., 
13: 
324-331.
Daniell H, Khan MS and Allison L. 2002. ‘‘Milestones in chloroplast genetic engineering: an
environmentally friendly era in biotechnology’’. 
Trends in Plant Science,
7:
84-91.
Chicas A and Macino G. 2011. ‘‘Characteristics of post transcriptional gene silencing’’. 
Embo.
Reports, 
21: 
992-996.
Kooter JM, Matzke MA and Meyer P. 1999. ‘‘Listening to the silent genes: transgene silencing,
gene regulation and pathogen control’’. 
Trends in Plant Science, 
4
: 304-307.
Awasthi AK, Nagaraja GM, Naik GV, Kanginakudru S, Thangavelu K and Nagaraju J. 2004.

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Sericulture
797
‘‘Genetic diversity and relationships in mulberry (genus 
Morus
)as revealed by RAPD and
ISSR marker assays’’. 
BMC Genetics,
5
:1-9.
Naik VG, Sarkar A and Sathyanarayana N. 2002. ‘‘DNA finger printing of Mysore Local and
V1 mulberry (
Morus
spp.) with RAPD markers’’. 
Indian J. Genet., 
62:
193-196.
Vijayan K. 2004. ‘‘Genetic relationship of Japanese and Indian mulberry (
Morus
spp.) genotypes
as revealed by DNA fingerprinting’’
. Plant Syst. Evol
., 
243
: 221-232.
Srivatsava PP, Vijayan K, Aswathi AK and Sarathchandra B. 2004. Genetic analysis of 
Morus
alba
through RAPD and ISSR markers. 
Indian J. Biotech
.,