Syllabus for ICAR-JRF (PhD)
Section-08: Plant Biochemistry/Biochemistry
Unit 1: Basic Biochemistry and Biomolecules
Unit 2: Intermediary Metabolism
Unit 3: Enzymes, Vitamins and Hormones
Unit 4: Molecular Biology
Unit 5: Techniques in Biochemistry
Unit 6: Biochemistry of Food-grains, Fruits and Vegetables
Unit 7: Photosynthesis
Unit 8: Plant Metabolic Processes
Unit 9: Plant Molecular Biology
Unit 10: Plant Biotechnology/Genetic Engineering
Section-10: Agricultural Biotechnology/Biotechnology/Molecular Biology & Biotechnology
Unit 1: Cell Structure and Function
Unit 2: Biomolecules and Metabolism
Unit 3: Enzymology
Unit 4: Molecular Genetics
Unit 5: Gene Expression
Unit 6: Molecular Biology Techniques
Unit 7: Gene Cloning
Unit 8: Molecular Biology
Unit 9: Plant Molecular Biology
Unit 10: Tissue Culture
Unit 11: Plant Genetic Engineering
Unit 12: Molecular Markers and Genomics
Section-11: Agricultural Microbiology/Microbiology
Unit 1: History of Microbial World
Unit 2: Basic Microbiological Techniques
Unit 3: Microbial Physiology
Unit 4: Microbial Genetics
Unit 5: Soil Microbiology
Unit 6: Microbial diversity and Ecology
Unit 7: Microbiology of food and water
Unit 8: Industrial Microbiology
Unit 9: Applications of microorganisms in agriculture
Unit 10: Microbial omics
Unit 11: Data Analysis
Section-33: Animal Biotechnology
Unit 1: Biomolecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology
Unit 2: Cell Biology
Unit 3: Fundamental Cellular Processes
Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Signaling
Unit 5: Molecular Biology and Recombinant DNA methods
Unit 6: Animal Tissue Culture and Hybridoma Technology
Unit 7: Embryo Transfer and Related Techniques
Section- 35: Food Technology
Unit 1: Introductory Food Technology
Unit 2: Technology of Foods of Plant Origin
Fruits and Vegetable Processing:
Food grain Processing:
Unit 3: Technology of Foods of Animal Origin
Technology of Milk and Milk Products:
Technology of Meat / Fish / Poultry Products:
Unit 4: Food Quality Management
Unit 5: Food Engineering/Packaging and Labeling
Unit 6: Food Microbiology & Biotechnology
Unit 7: Flavor Chemistry Technology
Unit 8: Consumer Sciences/Food Product Development/Health Foods
Section-72: Bioinformatics
Unit 1: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Unit 2: Preliminaries of Bioinformatics
Unit 3: Genome assembly
Unit 4: Evolutionary Biology
Unit 5: Statistical Genomics
Unit 6: Protein Structure Prediction
Unit 7: Biological Database Management System
Unit 8: Bio-programming and Computational Biology