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INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE / MBG602 - MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS (PHD)

Code: MBG602 Course Title: CELLULAR SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN PLANTS Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 3rd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS (PHD)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer MUSA KAR (musa.kar@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To provide the students an overview of how plants perceive and transduce environmental signals and how they adapt to the different challenges. The course will provide the students the cultural and methodological tools for the critical analysis, and the understanding, of the molecular mechanisms of plant signal transduction.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Can explain importance of singnalisation in plant metabolism. PO-1 Have information about current issues in molecular biology and genetics.
PO-2 Obtain basic knowledge of Molecular Biology
LO-2 can explain signaling pathways and the connections between them PO-1 Have information about current issues in molecular biology and genetics.
PO-2 Obtain basic knowledge of Molecular Biology
LO-3 Can explain the relationship between plant hormones and homeostasis PO-1 Have information about current issues in molecular biology and genetics.
PO-2 Obtain basic knowledge of Molecular Biology
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Molecular mechanisms by which plants perceive different stimuli through the activity of receptors Lecture Method
2 Mechanisms used by plants to sense different plant hormones Lecture Method
3 Role of ROS and RNS in different signal transduction pathways and their mechanism of action Lecture Method
4 Pathogens and symbiotic interactions Lecture Method
5 Techniques for second messenger analysis and hormone detection in plant cells Lecture Method
6 The importance of calcium signaling mechanism. Lecture Method
7 Homeostasis in plant cells Lecture Method
8 mid-term exam
9 Mechanisms developed by plants to detect intracellular Ca2+ variations (Ca2+ binding proteins, sensor relays and sensor responders) Lecture Method
10 Local and systemic signaling mechanism of the second messenger Lecture Method
11 Molecular mechanism of plant stress responses Lecture Method
12 Cellular Sensors Lecture Method
13 Signaling and Protein Lecture Method
14 Signaling and Protein Lecture Method
15 General Repetitions Lecture Method
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Plant Signal Transduction,,Jose R. Botella, Miguel A. Botella, Humana New York, NY, Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Required Course instruments and materials

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 2 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 3 10 30
       b) Search in internet/Library 3 10 30
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 3 10 30
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 2 7 14
mid-term exam 1 2 2
Own study for final exam 3 10 30
final exam 1 2 2
0
0
Total work load; 180