Ain Shams Center of
Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology
About Plant Molecular Genetic Lab:
Plant genetic resources play an important and constantly growing role in global food security and economic development and support the ability of agriculture to meet challenges, whether environmental or economic. Plant genetic resources constitute agricultural biodiversity, because of their essential importance in intensifying agricultural production, which contributes to strengthening the sustainable development of the agricultural plant production sector to increase production capacity to the highest level with a large plant and crop diversity to bridge the food gap and provide food for humans and animals. Plant genetic resources provide genetic information about productive traits that can help in facing future challenges and problems, for example, climatic changes, lack of water resources, tolerance to salinity, drought, heat stress, and resistance to the most common diseases, through the production of new and updated plant breeds and hybrids. Plant genetic resources help characterize and conserve plants and improve breeding methods in plant farms. Therefore, the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry of Plant Genetic Resources was established to contribute to the study, development, and consolidation of plant genetics in the development, development, and preservation of plant wealth, depending on molecular genetics and biochemistry,
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which aims to: Study the flow of genetic information within the biological system at the molecular level by studying Structure and function of genes, the study of expression and regulation of gene expression, study of important biological processes and pathways affecting the necessary biological functions, the study of the plant genome and its link to genetic changes that result in mutations or benign or not benign genetic changes. To properly understand the plant model to maximize the productive benefit and produce modern strains and hybrids with high production efficiency and resistance to environmental and pathological variables, as well as to preserve the genetic assets of plants.
Lab Vision
The Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry of Animal Resources is a leading specialized laboratory in the research of plant genetic resources, as well as in training and conducting scientific research related to the science of plant genetics.
Lab Mission
The laboratory contributes to advancing scientific research and harnessing it in the service and development of society, by adapting the techniques of molecular genetics and biochemistry of plant sources to help provide solutions to the problems and challenges facing the agricultural plant sector, increase production rates quantitatively and qualitatively, preserve diversity and genetic assets of plant sources and improve plant breeding programs.
Lab Services
1 . Providing consultations and scientific expertise to all academics, researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students from within the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, all departments of the Faculty of Agriculture, all faculties of Ain Shams University, and other universities, colleges, institutes, and other research centers with common research and scientific interests.
2 . Availability of equipment, materials, laboratory tools, and chemicals to conduct the necessary research, experiments, and genetic analyzes.
3 . Assisting, implementing, and presenting research projects to various funding bodies.
4 . Assistance and implementation in conducting genetic experiments and analyzes.
5 . Providing training courses and workshops that serve the educational process and students of scientific research.
6 . allowing hiring lab hours to start and end experiments for researchers and students of scientific research.
7 . The laboratory seeks to hold corporate protocols and cooperation between it and the various laboratories within the Faculty of Agriculture and Ain Shams University, as well as other local and international research laboratories, as well as various funding bodies for applied research projects to improve the educational and research level.
Education Goals
1 . Improving the educational and research process and effective participation in community service and development.
2 . Organizing training courses and workshops for the use of basic equipment in the laboratory.
3 . Organizing training courses and workshops to apply different genetic techniques to different plant models.
4 . Organizing training sessions to extract and isolate DNA, RNA, and protein from different plant models.
5 . Organizing training courses for polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
6 . Organizing training courses and workshops for diagnosing various plant diseases using RT-PCR.
7 . Organizing training courses and workshops to study, isolate and identify the genes controlling economic productive traits in different crops (crop productivity, quantitative and qualitative, sensitivity and resistance to diseases, tolerance to salinity, and heat stress).
Research projects in which the lab participated
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“Collection and Molecular Characterization of Genetic Resources of Breed Wheat from Different Arab Countries (Egypt, Syria, Tunis and Sudan)” Funded by ALECSO (1998-2000).
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Development of Transgenic Barley with Improved Tolerance to Abiotic Diseases’ Funded by the Egyptian Committee of the National Strategy of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Ministry of Scientific Research (2000-2003).
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“Fingerprint of Olive Varieties of three Arab Countries, Egypt, Jordan and Morocco” Funded by AOAD (Arab Organization of Agricultural Development) (2005-2006).
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“Biochemical and Molecular Genetic Fingerprinting of Some Flora of Sinai, Northern West Coast and Siwa Oasis” Funded by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt (2004-2007)
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“Identification of Novel lycopene Genes in Different Plant Species” Funded by Misr University for Science and Technology (2006-2007).
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“Improved Production of Some Important Anti-Cancer Active Ingredients from Medicinal Plants by Modern Biotechnology" Funded by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt (2006-2009).
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"Improvement of conditions planting and caring for the Date palm and the production of dates in Egypt" Funded by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt (2016- 2018).
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" Study of barley resistance to biological and environmental stress" Funded by STDF 2020.