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Objectives and Contextualization: In front of the current and future human energy requirements (food, medicines, biofuel, cloths, phytochemicals), and environmental challenges (soil and air contamination, land use, climate alterations, pests, etc) emerges an urgent need to develop new ways to improve existing food and animal feed crops (and to develop novel crops). Plant biotechnology is a main tool to improve actual plant production and derived resources to meet future challenges. The objective of the course is to provide new knowledge and widening of the knowledge acquired in previous courses by students, specially in modern plant and fungal biotechnology processes. We will deal with plant and fungal potentialities in current biotechnological processes, allways with the objective of improving plant characteristics and production in different contextualizations, understanding that biotechnological processes have applicative values in pharmaceutical and food industry, agriculture and in ecology, among other. - Learn the methodology of its study and biotechnological management in order to develop subsequent activities in both research and professional environments. - Share experiences with researchers developing their own projects on plant/ fungal biotechnology. 1. |