Plant genetic engineering

 In this course, students learn about the different methods of plant transgenesis using biological, chemical or physical vectors, their acceptability and their applications in fields as varied as plant improvement, the production of biomolecules or therapeutic recombinant proteins. In tutorials, students are asked to document, reflect, argue and debate on transgenesis and its alternatives through a scenario related to plant improvement. In practical work, students are involved in the improvement of a protocol aimed at obtaining root hairs using the knowledge they have acquired in class.

-Knowledge: Methods of plant transgenesis, their improvements and applications

-Know-how: Manipulate plants and bacteria, in vitro, in an axenic environment. To document, to know how to present information in public, to pose a hypothesis and to develop an experimental plan to try to test it.

-Skills: working in a group in a collaborative mode, arguing and debating, making a decision.

Basics of Plant Biology and Physiology, Basics of Molecular Biology