Level of education
Bachelor's degree
ECTS
6 credits
Training structure
Faculty of Science
Description
In this course, students deepen their knowledge of the various methods of plant transgenesis using biological, chemical, or physical vectors, their acceptability, and their applications in fields as varied as plant improvement, biomolecule production, and recombinant therapeutic proteins. In tutorials, students are encouraged to research, reflect, argue, and debate transgenesis and its alternatives through a scenario related to plant breeding. In practical work, students are involved in improving a protocol for obtaining root hairs using the knowledge they have acquired in class.
Objectives
-Knowledge: Methods of plant transgenesis, their improvements, and their applications
-Skills: Handling plants and bacteria in vitro in an axenic environment. Researching, presenting information in public, formulating hypotheses, and developing experimental plans to test them.
-Interpersonal skills: working collaboratively in a group, arguing and debating, making decisions.
Mandatory prerequisites
Fundamentals of Plant Biology and Physiology, Fundamentals of Molecular Biology