Molecular biology of growth and development of flowering plants

Timetable

Lectures 16h

Laboratory 9h

1 group

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.