Department of Plant Biotechnology

Main laboratories

• Plant tissue culture Lab
• Media preparation Lab
• Plant cytogenetic Lab
• Secondary metabolites extraction Lab
• Plant molecular Lab
• High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) Lab
• Detection of plant Secondary metabolites Lab
• Biological activity assay Lab
• Incubator room for plant tissue culture 

Objectives

• Utilizing tissue culture technology and other techniques to produce plants that are tolerant of environmental conditions such as salinity and drought with desirable agricultural specifications
• Micro-vegetative propagation in vivo for economically important plants
• Production and purification of active substances from some medicinal plants for use in the pharmaceutical and food industries
• Using magnetized water to improve agricultural plant and animal production
• The use of tissue culture technology in the development of high productivity of medicinal plants
• Establishing agricultural studies for the production of haploid plants for use in breeding and improvement processes
• Work on the environmental accounting of living and non-living genes transfer

Main Lab. Apparatuses & devices

• High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
• Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
• Real-time polymerase chain reaction (rt-PCR)
• Spectrophotometer
• Flame photometer
• Autoclave
• Fume hood
• Laminar air flow cabinet
• Immunosorbent Assay Enzyme-Linked
• Rotary evaporator
• Light and florescent Microscopes
• Gel documentation system
• Thermo mixer
• Shaking incubator
•  Deep freeze
• Plant growth chamber