- Docente: Paolo Bernardo Trost
- Credits: 7
- SSD: BIO/04
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Paolo Bernardo Trost (Modulo 1) Francesca Sparla (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 1); In-person learning (entirely or partially) (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Molecular and cellular biology (cod. 8021)
Course contents
Arabidopsis thaliana as a model species in plant biology. Nuclear and plastidic genomes. Endosymbiotic gene transfer. Import and sorting of plastidial proteins.
Oxidative stress and redox signalling. Production and detoxification of ROS in plants. Photosynthesis and photoinhibition. Mitochondria. NADPH-oxidase. Thiol-based redox signalling.
Abiotic stress. Water stress: osmotic adjustment, abscissic acid.
Biotic stress. Major phytopathogens. Constitutive defense. Basal immunity and vertical resistance (guard hypothesis and gene for gene model). Oxidativeburst, NO and hypersensitive response.Systemic responses.
Readings/Bibliography
Taiz, Zeiger, Plant physiology, 5th edition, Sinauer Associates
Buchanan, Gruissem, Jones, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, The American Society of Plant Physiology, Rockville, Maryland
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See the website of Francesca Sparla