谷物科学硕士

已经获得了用于发展谷物植物分子生物学和基因工程研究设施的资金。这包括组织培养设施，用于基因转化植物细胞的“基因枪”和植物生长室。我们的重点是谷物和拟南芥的基本和应用方面，主要关注分子信号系统和大麦萌发的生物化学。虽然我们目前正在向大麦植物中引入有用的基因，但我们的主要目的是使用现代转基因方法来了解谷物的生理学，而不是制备“基因工程”食品。<br>更多关于谷物的传统研究涉及麦芽制造大麦的研究，特别涉及不同大麦基因型的淀粉的组成，大麦中麦芽糖酶同工酶的研究，小麦淀粉向可发酵糖的转化以生产谷物威士忌，以及代谢途
Funding has been received to develop facilities for pursuing research in the molecular biology and genetic engineering of cereal plants. This includes tissue culture facilities, a ‘gene-gun' for genetically transforming plant cells, and plant growth rooms. Our focus is on fundamental and applied aspects of cereals and Arabidopsis with principal interests in molecular signalling systems and the biochemistry of germination in barley. While we are currently introducing useful genes into barley plants, our main intentions are to use modern transgenic methods to understand the physiology of cereals rather than to prepare ‘genetically engineered' foods.<br>More traditional research on cereals involves the malting of barley with particular reference to the composition of starches from different barley genotypes, studies on the maltase isoenzymes in barley, the conversion of wheat starch to fermentable sugars for the production of grain whisky, and the role of metabolic pathways involved in energy production, particularly those within the mitochondria, in dormancy.