| Department of Agricultural Sciences
45 % Department of Plant Biology 45 % Department of Basic Animal and Veterinary Sciences 10 % | |||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | BSc. 3 year | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Course Level | Joint BSc and MSc Status as common course provides flexibility and possibility for participation from various study directions | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination Written Exam in Lecturehall All aids allowed Description of Examination: Four hours written exam based on a number of questions covering most aspects of the course. Weight: 100 % 13-point scale, internal examiner Dates of Exam: 03 November 2006 | ||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Accepted lab reports(75 %) and oral presentation of case | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Mixture of lectures, laboratory and computer exercises and PBL cases. | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 1 Week Structure: A | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | After Organism Biology and after Bioinformatics 1 or similar prerequisites for outsite KVL students | ||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||
| Basic science: Comprehension of integrated approaches using genetics, physiology, biochemistry and bioinformatics to relate plant phenotype with genotype as platforms for molecular models of plant metabolism. Integration of basic plant knowledge to understand complex plant model systems. Applied science: Knowledge of application of molecular tools for plant improvement through molecular breeding for agricultural plant production, biomedicine and plants as green factories. Knowledge of basic laboratory technicques within plant genomics and molecular breeding. Ethics and values: Is aware of the ethics of exploitation of new molecular approaches in plant biotechnology. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||
| Provide a basic knowledge about the structure of plant genomes and experience with major techniques used within basic science and molecular breeding. Focus is on closing the gap between phenotypic traits and the increasing information on plant genomes and RNA/DNA/protein sequences. The course initiates from genomics of the two model species rice and Arabidopsis and transfers the principles to cultivated crops to understand the potential of exploitations of the technology. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||
| Forward and reverse genetics. Mutants: based on TILLING/T-DNA/transposon/spontaneous. Genome sequencing programmes - why the choice of model organisms. Genetic diversity of plants. Phylogenetic trees, pedigrees and dendrograms based on molecular markers and gene sequences. The structure of plant genomes. Molecular marker based maps and linkage analysis. Quantitative traits and their genetics (QTL). Comparative mapping of plant genomes and exploitation of synteni. Functional genomics. Plant in vitro cultures and plant regeneration. Expression profiling (arrays). Integrative genomics. | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| 40 % for lectures and discussion classes. 60 % for practical exercises and advice of PBL cases. Students are expected to work in dynamic groups for exercises and PBL and be able to produce short hand written and oral presentation of results. | |||||||||||||||
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| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Sven Bode Andersen, sba@life.ku.dk, Department of Agricultural Sciences/Plant and Soil Science, Phone: 35333444 Søren Bak, bak@life.ku.dk, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology/Plant Biochemistry Laboratory, Phone: 35333346 | |||||||||||||||
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