Plant Breeding 2 Fight Hunger: An Online Certificate Course

This online international Plant Breeding and Biotechnology is a 14-week certificate course. The course focuses on conventional and modern plant breeding methods, tools, and technologies for crop improvement. The course modules will include various aspects of plant breeding as well as biotechnology tools including molecular markers, genomics, genetic engineering, and genome editing. In addition, the course covers the regulatory approvals needed for testing and commercialization of biotechnology derived crops.

For more information, please contact Dr. Cholani Weebadde at: weebadde@msu.edu.

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