Ph.D Programs in Agricultural Microbiology

Outcome
gene technology.
Students wila
1.6. AGM 509 Plant - Microbe Interactions (3+0)
Objectives
9
•To familiarize the students with the biochemical and
biophysical mechanisms, genetics, genomics, proteomics and
advanced microscopy, spectroscopy of different interfaces of
beneficial and pathogenic plant microbe interactions.
•Molecular analysis of relevant factors in the plant and
microbes, and components that modulate plant-microbe interactions
for soil and plant health for sustaining crop productivity. 
 Unit
I
Nature ofm icro
interfaces of interactions - Plant- microbe, soil microbe, soil-plantmicrobe
interactions leading to symbiotic (rhizobial and mycorrhizal),
associative, endophytic and pathogenic interactions. Types of
ecosystems: Concept and dynamics of ecosystem, Food chain and
energy flow, Microbial communities in the soil. Microbial colonization
in plant roots, Plant root border cells production of cell specific
chemo attractants, nod gene inducers, phytoalexins and
phosphatases. 
 Unit II 
Q -sensing uorumin bacteria, flow of signals
in response to different carbon or other substrates and how signals
are recognized. Molecular basis of rhizosphere colonization. Signal
molecules for plant
microbe interactions, their genes involved in various responses to signal
molecules Community dynamics and population interactions employing
DGGE, TGGE, T-RFLP.
Unit III
M -microbe ethodology/resources interaction, to study plant
recombinant inbred lines, biosensors Decomposition of organic matter in
soil. Antagonism among soil microorganisms, Transcriptome profiling,