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| FACULTY | AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES & FORESTRY | ||||
| DEPT. | AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT | ||||
| LEVEL OF STUDIES | Undergraduate | ||||
| COURSE CODE | AGRON1022 | SEMESTER | 6th/8th | ||
| COURSE TITLE | Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions | ||||
| INDIVINDUAL TEACHING ACTIVITIES | WEEKLY TEACHING HOURS | ECTS | |||
| Lectures and Exercises | 5 | 5 | |||
| COURSE TYPE: | Specialization Optional | ||||
| PRECONDITION LESSONS: | None | ||||
| TUTORIAL LANGUAGE: | Greek | ||||
| LESSON OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS | Yes | ||||
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- LEARNING RESULTS
| Learning Results |
| The main goal of the course is to provide an overview of the biology of host-microbe interactions at the molecular level.
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| General skills |
| By the end of the course the students are expected to know the plant disease resistance mechanisms as well as the respective invasion mechanisms used by pathogens at genetic and molecular levels. In addition, they should be able to follow any research development in those fields and comprehend the methods employed in plant breeding cultivars resistant to pathogens via the exploitation of molecules based on the study of plant-microbe interactions.to provide the students with a concise review of the molecular biology of plants and microorganisms like fungi, bacteria and viruses.
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- COURSE CONTENT
| Introduction– The concept of plant disease: parasitism and symbiosis, Mechanisms of constitutive and induced plant resistance towards microbes, Molecular plant microbe interactions.
Mechanisms of plant resistance– The molecular basis of plant reaction towards invasion by microbes, Detection of plant disease resistance genes, Genetics of plant disease resistance Recognition process and signaling in host-pathogen systems – Model systems for studying molecular plant-pathogen interactions Local and systemic plant disease resistance – Plant mechanisms involved in resistance/ susceptibility to pathogens, Molecular mechanisms of systemic acquired resistance (salicylic acid, jasmonic acid and ethylene as plant disease resistance inducers) Plant – virus interactions – Viral virulence factors, proteins and microRNAs involved in plant viral infections Mechanisms involved in plant bacterial diseases – Bacterial virulence factors involved in plant bacterial diseases, Mechanisms involved in pathogenesis by plant bacteria, Bacterial effectors and secretion mechanisms, Genetics of host specificity Infection mechanisms in plant – fungi pathosystems – Molecular signal transduction in plant – pathogenic fungi interactions, Genetic analysis of the interactions in the pathosystem between the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the oomycete Hyaloperonospora parasitica Molecular signal transduction in the interaction between plants and symbiotic microbes – Symbiosis vs defense: two sides of the same coin, Interactions in the symbiosis between legumes and nitrogen fixing bacteria, Interactions between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, The use of beneficial microbes in agriculture
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- INFORMATIVE AND LEARNING EVALUATION METHODS
| WAY OF TEACHING | In classroom presentations and theoretical exercises | |
| USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES | ICT use (power point) | |
| TEACHING ORGANIZATION | Activity | Amount of activity in Semester |
| Lectures | 39 | |
| Exercises | 26 | |
| Team exercises | 35 | |
| Individual research | 25 | |
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(25 hours per credit unit) |
125 |
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| STUDENT EVALUATION
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Final written exams and optional project at the end of the semester | |
- RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 1 Agrios G., «Phytopathology»
2. Watson James, κ.α., «Recombinant DNA»
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