Undergraduate Course: Molecular Strategies for Survival: Time, Light and Stress (PLSC10025)
Course Outline
| School | School of Biological Sciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course will examine how sessile plants that cannot escape hostile conditions cope with their ever-changing environment. |
| Course description |
This course is broadly divided in three interconnected topics: First, we will scrutinize the molecular mechanisms of the clock gene circuit in plants, and evidence for its physiological importance in controlling plant signalling, growth, and seasonal reproduction - hence also harvest schedules. Second, we will examine the relevance of light signalling to plant development and survival, the molecular and cellular mechanisms of light perception, environmental signal integration and the application of knowledge to crop development. Finally, we will investigate how environmental stress cues are sensed, lead to dramatic reprogramming of the cellular transcriptome, and are fine-tuned to ultimately produce an appropriate response that provides resistance or tolerance to the stress encountered.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2018/19, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
98 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
In Class Test at end of semester. |
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be provided for ICA. |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | Molecular Strategies for Survival: Time, Light and Stress | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- On completion of this course, the student will be able to critically read background literature in a variety of plant science research areas;
- generate evidence-based new hypotheses supported by background literature
- design theoretical experiments, demonstrate an understanding of their execution, and interpret their outcomes.
- effectively use visual aids to present and summarize the findings of research articles that represent major advances in the plant sciences.
- proficiently debate, defend or debunk published theory and complex experimental data sets.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | MolStrat |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Steven Spoel
Tel: (0131 6)51 3314
Email: Steven.Spoel@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Louise Robertson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5988
Email: Louise.K.M.Robertson@ed.ac.uk |
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