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Lecturer(s)
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Takáč Tomáš, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Plants and stress. Abiotic and biotic stress factors. Sensitivity, tolerance and resistance. Plants' stress response. Plants' defense responses against stress - strategies leading to the elimination of negative effects of stress factors. Acclimation and adaptation. Abiotic stress - temperature, drought stress, osmotic stress, salinity, pH, toxic metals, air pollution, xenobiotics. Biotic stress - herbivores, pathogenic microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, fungi). Possible employment of biotechnological approaches for increasing the stress resistance of plants. During the seminars, students will be tasked with finding (two) experimental examples of gene modification in plants in the literature that change their resistance to a selected stress. Students will present the examples at the seminar, followed by a discussion with students. Students will then process the examples and discussion into a text of at least 2000 characters and a maximum of 2500 characters (including spaces).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
- Homework for Teaching
- 30 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Exam
- 40 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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To gain insights into the problems of plant stress biology and potential application of biotechnology techniques designed to modify the properties of plants to increase resistance to stress. Processing and presentation of literature.
Students will gain knowledge about plant stress biology and possible employment of biotechnological approaches for higher stress resistance of plants. Students will present a selected scientific publication.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Seminar Work
Regular attendance of seminars, elaboration and presentation of individual tasks.
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Recommended literature
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Ashraf M., Harris P.J.C. (2005). Abiotic stresses: plant resistance through breeding and molecular approaches. Haworth Press.
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Fritsche-Neto R., Borém A. (2012). Plant breeding for biotic stress resistance. Springer, Heidelberg.
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Sergey Shabala. Plant Stress Physiology. Boston.
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Tuteja N., Gill S.S., Tiburcio A.F., Tuteja R. (2012). Improving crop resistance to abiotic stress. Wiley-Blackwell, Weinheim.
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