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HU Credits:
3
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
life sciences
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof Alex Levine
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment, 2-468
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Alex Levine
Course/Module description:
The course presents strategies of different organisms in response to pathogenic and symbiotic organisms
Course/Module aims:
Analysis and comparison of the strategies used by different organisms and the responses of plants and animals to pathogenic and symbiotic organisms
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Identify organismal responses to virulent and avirulent pathogens.
2. Compare plant and animal responses.
3. Differentiate between innate and cellular immunity.
Attendance requirements(%):
80%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture and seminar
Course/Module Content:
1. Plant pathogens and general plant defense strategies (physical and bio-chemical defenses, preformed and induced resistance, history of PPI)
2.Compatible/incompatible interactions, host/ non-host resistance, specific/ general resistance, multigenic (horizontal) resistance.
3. Gene-for-gene hypothesis I (virulence and avirulence genes in the pathogen, cloning host (plant) resistance genes)
4. Hypersensitive response, Oxidative burst and Programmed cell death (PCD) as defense strategy, defense signal transduction.
5. type III secretion system (pathogen attack strategies, quorum sensing, suppression of host defenses by interfering with plant signal tranduction)
6. Gene-for-gene hypothesis II (resistance genes, cloning and mode of action, detecting pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs), defense (PCD) signal transduction)
7. Defense signaling pathways (molecular biology and genetics of resistance pathways, calcium, defense genes signaling, role of MAP kinases)
8. Plant hormones in defense pathways (salicylic acid, jasmonic acid, abscisic acid, ethylene)
9. Systemic acquired resistance (induced resistance) and plant Innate immunity
10. Symbiotic interactions (mycorhizae)
11. Symbiotic interactions (rhizobium, Biological Nitrogen fixation)
Required Reading:
http://www.plantcell.org/site/teachingtools/TTPB22.xhtml
Additional Reading Material:
None
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 15 %
Participation in Tutorials 5 %
Project work 80 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
None
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