General information

Course type AMUPIE
Module title Molecular biology of growth and development of flowering plants
Language English
Module lecturer prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Garnczarska
Lecturer's email garnczar@amu.edu.pl
Lecturer position
Faculty Faculty of Biology
Semester 2025/2026 (winter)
Duration 24
ECTS 4
USOS code 01-MOLGRO-PIE

Timetable

Lectures 16h, Laboratory 9h, 1 group

27th November 2025, Collegium Biologicum, room Owalna; 8.15/10.30; Lecture

4th December 2025, Collegium Biologicum, room Owalna; 8.15/9:45;   Lecture

10th December 2025, Collegium Biologicum, room B3; 12.15/15:15; Technical training

11th December 2025, Collegium Biologicum, room Owalna; 8.15/9:45; Lecture

17th December 2025, Collegium Biologicum, room F1; 12.55/16.00; Technical training

18th December 2025, Collegium Biologicum, room C; 10.30/12.45;  Lecture

8th January 2026, Collegium Biologicum, room C; 10.30/12:00; Lecture

15th January 2026, Collegium Biologicum, room C; 10.30/12:00; Lecture

21st January 2026, Collegium Biologicum, room C,10.30/12:00; Lecture

Module aim (aims)

The aim of this course is to tell the story of how the higher plant organisms change over time and what are the molecular mechanisms underlying these chagnes.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

General background in plant science.

Syllabus

Week  1 Prof. Jarosław Gzyl: Cell cycle and its regulation (2h);

Week  2 Prof. Małgorzata Garnczarska: Embryogenesis. Seed germination (3h);

Week  3 Prof. Tomasz Wyka: Organization and activity of the shoot apical meristem and formation of the primary plant body (2h);

Week  4 Prof. Tomasz Wyka: Mechanisms of leaf development and the origins of leaf diversity (2h)

Week  5 Prof. Magdalena Arasimowicz-Jelonek: Hormone signalling in sporophyte and flower growth and development. Programmed cell death in plant development and defence, stress-induced signalling (3h);

Week  7 Prof. Robert Luciński: Senescence as the final phase of leaf development. Molecular background of colouration of senescing leaves in autumn (3h)

Week 8 Prof. Robert Luciński, dr hab. Małgorzata Adamiec: Introduction to the biology of leaf senescence (laboratory, 5h)

Week 9 Introduction to plant tissue culture (laboratory, 4h)

Reading list

Davies PJ (ed) Plant Hormones. Biosynskithesis, Signal Transduction, Action, 2004, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht;

Raghavan V. Developmental biology of flowering plants, 2000, Springer Verlag, New York;

Taiz L., Zeiger E. (eds) Plant Physiology, 2006, Sinauer Associates Inc. Publishers, Sunderland.