Biotechnology

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Lecture 8 Molecular biotechnology and industry
An Michaels/Keygene

• Introduction Director, US operations
• Keygene- molecular biotechnology in Agriculture
• World-wide operations, owned by Consortium
• Needs
• Agriculture and molecular biology importance
• 2.2 kg good tomato seeds 2x Hummers
• Genotyping vs plant breeding
• Markers to decrease time in plant generations
• Rapid analyses with genomic tools
• DNA sequencing to next gen tech
• 454 and pyrosequencing