Understand goals scientist hope to achieve by understand physiology of crop plants

Be able to describe examples where physiology has contributed to crop improvement.

Be able to describe examples where physiology has tried, but failed to contribute to crop improvement.

Understand anti-sense genetic approaches to modifying the physiology and growth of plants

Know what is meant by a chimaric gene construct

Know the role of a promoter in genetic engineering

Understand how a protein gel (Western") blot is created and what it measures

Understand what an RNA gel (Northern) gel blot is created and what it measures

Know what functional genomics means and its potential impact in crop improvement

Know what proteomics means and its impact on crop improvement

Be able to use GenBank to identify information relevant to crop improvement