Department of Plant Production and Genetics
About
The educational activities of the Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding of Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in the University of Guilan started by the approval of the 108th meeting of Council on the extension of higher education of Ministry of Higher Education in 1976. Accordingly, the admission of under graduate students started in fall 1977. By developing the higher educational activities in University of Guilan, these activities established in this department by admission of Master of Sciences (MSc), and the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Agronomy and Plant Breeding in 1995 and 2009, respectively.
Department of Agronomy and Plant breeding currently offers the degree of Bachelor in both agronomy and plant breeding, Master of Agronomy (since 1995), Plant breeding (since 1995), Seed Science and Technology (since 2012) and Weed Science and Weed Control (since 2014), PhD in Agronomy (since 2010) and PhD in Plant Breeding (since 2010) for the qualified applicants.Currently, the department has 9 full-time faculty members and 156 students.
Facilities and Equipment
Agronomy Lab
Equipped with the facilities (including Soxhlet extractor, Refrigerated Incubator, Digital Scale, Oven, Autoclavem Leaf Area Meter, Chlorophyll fluorescence device, SPAD, spectrophotometer,etc.) to teach some courses such as Agronomy, Seed Science, etc.
Genomics Lab
Equipped with the facilities (including Thermocycler (Eppendorf), Mini incubator, Spectrophotometer, Magnet stepper (Yello line), Microcentrifuge (Eppendorf), Centrifuge (Labofuge), Shaker (IKA), Digital Scale with 0.1 mg accuracy (Sartorius), Gilson sampler set etc.) to teach some courses such as Genetics, Plant Breeding, etc.