PLANT RESPONSES TO THE ENVIRONMENT

Topics

• Marking scheme & how the course works (different types of classes – lecture, tutorial & PBL sessions)
• Review of Disease and Resistance knowledge from Bio2D03
• Plant molecular techniques in the age of genomics
• PAMP-Triggered Immunity and Effector-Triggered Immunity
• Role of the phytohormones, SA and JA in defense to microbes and insects
• Age-Related Resistance, a developmentally regulated defense, map-based cloning to identify an ARR gene.
• Gene Silencing in Plants - a novel defense mechanism against foreign nucleic acids
• How plants sense changes in daylength to determine when to reproduce
• How plants sense changes in temperature by using epigenetics to determine when to reproduce
• How plants respond to water deficit (drought, salinity, cold & freezing)