Courses

The extraction and purification of plant viruses; Viral nomenclature; The ecology and transmission of plant viruses in Ghana; Factors influencing dispersal of viruses;  History of the Cocoa Swollen Shoot virus in Ghana and the importance of the virus in...

Including induction of host resistance by Elicitors, Phytoalexins, Host-selective host-specific toxins.  Post infectinal structures and Plant Disease Resistance.  Molecular interactions between pathogen and host plants.

Systematic approach to diagnosis.  Epidemiology;  Dynamics of interacting pathogen and host populations;  Effect of biotic and Physical factors on disease.  Disease forecasting and epidemic modelling.  Compound and Simple Interest...

Occurrence, distribution and biology of mistletoes (Tapinanthus spp.) dodders (Cuscuta and Cassytha spp.) witchweed (Striga spp.) and Thonningia sanguinea in West Africa. Biological, cultural and chemical control methods and their appraisal.  Pre-and...

Population genetics:  Hardy-Weinberg law and evolutionary factors; inbreeding; balanced Polymorphism:  genetic distances between populations.

Genetic linkage:  detection and measurement of linkage;  genetic mapping;  interference metrics.  Biometrical genetics; analysis of means, variances and covariances of parental and derived populations; estimation of number of genes...

Biometry.  Statistical methods:  analysis of variance; factorial experimentation; multivariate analysis.  Classification and ordination.  Maximum likelihood method of statistical estimation. Algebra: matrix algebra;  complex numbers....

The following main aspects, main levels and main stages of  Genetic Resources will be treated:
Levels of Action:   International/regional, Subregional/National/District, Community.  Group:
Public sector, Private sector, NGO, Go. ...

Molecular genetics and genetic engineering.  Review of structure of DNA,  RNA,  Gene. Review of protein synthesis.  Enzymes.  Nucleases.  Restriction enzymes.  Enzymes used in Recombinant DNA Technology.  Vectors and...

Introduction.  Implications of pollination mechanisms in plant breeding.  Mode of reproduction in relation to plant breeding.  Autogamy.  Evolutionary aspects of autogamy.  Mechanisms of autogamy.  Management of pollination in...