ADVANCED PLANT BIOLOGY (I) FALL SEMESTER 2015
PLANT GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Organizer: Guang-Yuh Jauh
Phone: 02-27871156
Office: IPMB R126
Email: jauh@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Times: Thursday 2:00-5:00 pm
Class Location: A236, 2F, Agricultural Technology Building, Academia Sinica
Objective of the course:
Plant biology is the fundamental lectures of modern plant study. To provide the
comprehensive and wide knowledge of advanced plant biology, this course contains
following three major themes: (1) Plant vegetative growth; (2) Plant responses to
internal signals; and (3) Plant responses to external signals.
Suggested Textbook:
Plant Physiology and development (2015) Lincoln Taiz et al (eds), Sinauer Associates,
Inc.
Reference:
The Arabidopsis Book by The American Society of Plant Biologists
(http://www.arabidopsisbook.org/)
Grading System:
Attendance and Participation
Assignment (I and II) and Quiz
Mid-Term Exam
Final Project and Presentation
10%
30%
30%
30%
Course Outline:
Topic
Date
Lecturer
1-1. General introduction/ Leaf and
photosynthesis
1-2. Chloroplast: the energy source of the
world
1-3. Florigen and systemic macromolecular
signals
1-4. Signaling and function of Hormone (II)
abscisic acid, ethylene, salicylic acid,
strigolactones, and jasmonic acid
1-5. Signaling and function of Hormone (I)
auxin, gibberellins, cytokinin, peptide
hormones and brassinosteroids
2-1. Plant glycerolipids: metabolism and
function in plant growth and
development
2-2. Endomembrane trafficking
First assignment due
2-3. Chromatin modifications in plant
growth and development
Mid-term examination
09/17 Drs. Guang-Yuh Jauh/
Hsiu-An Chu
09/24 Dr. Ming-Hsiun Hsieh
2-4. Ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis in plant
2-5. Gene silencing in plant
2-6. Regulation of Plant Source-Sink
Communication
3-1. Plant responses to drought stress
11/19 Dr. Hongyong Fu
11/26 Dr. Na-Sheng Lin
12/03 Dr. Su-May Yu
3-2. Plant responses to heavy metals
3-3. Plant responses to heat stress
Second assignment due
3-4. Light harvesting and sensing
3-5. Light-mediated growth and
development in plant
Final examination
12/17 Dr. Kuo-Chen Yeh
12/24 Dr. Yee-yung Charng
Reading
materials
Chapters
7, 8 and 9
10/01 Dr. Tien-Shin Yu
10/08 Dr. Wan-Hsing Cheng
10/15 Dr. Tuan-hua David
Ho
10/22 Dr. Yuki Nakamura
10/29 Dr. Chao-Wen Wang
11/05 Dr. Wan-Sheng Sunny
Lo
11/12 Dr. Guang-Yuh Jauh
12/10 Dr. Paul E. Verslues
12/31 Dr. Shih-Long Tu
01/07 Dr. Shu-Hsing Wu
Dr. Guang-Yuh Jauh
01/14
Chapters
10, 16 and
18