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Undergraduate Course: Molecular Strategies for Survival: Time, Light and Stress (PLSC10025)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Biological Sciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course will examine how sessile plants that cannot escape hostile conditions cope with their ever-changing environment. 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.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 98 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Examination in final week.
Feedback Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)Molecular Strategies for Survival: Time, Light and Stress2:00
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. On completion of this course, the student will be able to critically read background literature in a variety of plant science research areas;
  2. generate evidence-based new hypotheses supported by background literature
  3. design theoretical experiments, demonstrate an understanding of their execution, and interpret their outcomes.
  4. effectively use visual aids to present and summarize the findings of research articles that represent major advances in the plant sciences.
  5. proficiently debate, defend or debunk published theory and complex experimental data sets.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsMolStrat
Contacts
Course organiserDr Catherine Kidner
Tel: (0131 6)51 3316
Email:
Course secretaryMiss Emma Currie
Tel: (0131 6)50 5988
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