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Agricultural Biotechnology


 
About us

At first I would like to welcome you to the website of the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran. Nowadays, the application of biotechnology is considered as a new tool in agricultural research as well as medical and veterinary sciences. In agricultural sciences, use of biotechnological approaches resulted in increasing crop yield and nutritional value, production of pharmaceutical compounds, extending postharvest shelf life, studying of biosynthesis pathways and improvement of agricultural crops for growing under biotic or abiotic stress conditions. Application of new techniques lets breeders to replace and/or remove time-consuming methods in plant breeding programs. Clearly, development and using of new technologies are obligated to overcome food crisis resulted of decreasing arable field area under cultivation and climate changing. Innovation and creativity of new tools help researchers to enhance food supply under these limitation factors.

The mission of the department of agricultural biotechnology is to create a positive research environment and condition for students to learn and become competent to work in lab and field as well. The research and education activities of our department focus mainly on medicinal plant molecular biology and breeding as well as medical molecular farming. Department of agricultural biotechnology built a close collaboration with a range of researchers from local universities and international scientists to derive a benefit from broad range of knowledge and experience. We welcome any mutual collaboration with abroad academic members and institutes interesting on the scope of our research.

History
At first, the section of Biotechnology was launched in 2006, merged in Plant Breeding Department under the name of Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology till 2015 under the College of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, located in Tehran, Iran. During this period, around 70 MS students were graduated. Due to the importance of biotechnology application in different section of agriculture, the most reorganization took place in 2016, when the department of agricultural biotechnology was founded by separation from Department of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology. At that time, this department was allowed to accept candidates for Ph.D. degree, based on getting qualification which evaluated by Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.