Relevant IA courses | Relevant lecture blocks | Specific relevant lectures/ topics | |
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Development | IA Cells | Development (Weil) | Lecture 6: Plant development |
Signal transduction (Webb) | Lecture 4: Plant signalling | ||
IA E&B | Origins of plants (Glover) | Lecture 3: Self incompatibility | |
Angiosperm radiation (Glover) | Lectures 2&3: ABC model | ||
IA PoO | A Grounding in Plant Physiology (Griffiths) | Lecture 6: Introduction to Plants Lecture 7: Sensing and Responding to the Environment |
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Plant Physiology Underground (Paszkowski) | Lecture 16: PGRs and Developmental Plasticity Lecture 17: Communication in Plants Lecture 18: Movement in Plants |
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Suggested review article: ' | '. Ostergaard (2009) Current Opinion in Plant Biology 12:36-41|||
Environmental microbiology | IA Cells | The Living Cell (Akam) | Lecture 1: Cell walls Lecture 2: Essential cell activities |
Signal transduction (Webb) | Lecture 3: Prokaryote signalling | ||
IA PoO | Plant pathology (Carr) | Lectures 1&2: Bacteria and fungi | |
Suggested review article: ' | '. Podgornaia and Laub (2013) Current Opinion in Microbiology 16:156-162|||
Epidemiology | IA MB* |
Population dynamics (Cunniffe) |
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Suggested review article: ' |
'. Gilligan et al. (2007) Journal of the Royal Society Interface 4:925-34|||
Plant-microbe interactions | IA Cells | Genes in action (Monie) | Lecture 5: Controlling gene expression |
IA PoO | Cell Proliferation (Pina) | Lecture 3: Viruses | |
Suggested review article: ' | '. Dodds and Rathjen (2010) Nature Reviews Genetics 11:539-548|||
Beneficial plant-microbe interactions | IA Cells | Chemistry of life (Hibberd) | Lecture 8: Amino acid synthesis |
IA E&B | Origins of plants (Glover) | Lecture 2: Mycorrhizae | |
IA PoO | Plant pathology (Carr) | Lectures 1&2: Bacteria and fungi Lecture 3: Plant as microbial host |
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Suggested review article: ' | '. Delaux et al. (2013) Trends in Plant Science 18(6):298-304|||
Plant-animal interactions | IA E&B | Origins of plants (Glover) | Lecture 4: Herbivore defences |
Angiosperm radiation (Glover) | Lecture 3: Gene duplication | ||
IA PoO | A Grounding in Plant Physiology (Griffiths) | Lecture 12: Solutes | |
Suggested review article: ' |
'. McCormick et al. (2012) Trends in Plant Science 17(5):303-310
* For these lectures a detailed understanding of the underlying mathematics will not be required. Those who have done any Maths A/B may find the mathematical background useful.