Plant responses to environmental stress

The course will be a review of plant responses to different types of environmental stress, in particular physiological and molecular analysis. Molecular biology tools have allowed tremendous progress in our understanding of plant responses. Responses of plants to drought salt stress, temperature stress, toxic concentrations of trace metals, biotic stress, ... will be presented. The course will also include advances in the improvement of plant resistance to stress by genetic engineering. General research strategies will be discussed through analysis of case studies.

The aim of the course is to give students the necessary tools to understand mechanisms of plant responses to different environmental stresses.

Case studies

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

Research and review articles (on U.V.)

Contacts

VERBRUGGEN Nathalie Laboratoire de Physiologie et de Génétique Moléculaire des Plantes - ULB-Campus Plaine - CP 242 - Bd. du Triomphe - 1050 Bruxelles. Tél. : 02/6502128 - Fax : 02/6505421 - email : nverbru@ulb.ac.be - http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/lpgmp

Method(s) of evaluation

• Other

Other

Written examination+ oral presentation of a personal work

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

1/2 written examination + 1/2 oral presentation

Language(s) of evaluation

• english