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On completion of this module students should be able to:
- Develop a general understanding of the basic needs of plants and of the strategies that plants use to meet these needs even under adverse environmental conditions (stress);
- Understand stress concepts - the definition and origin of the term 'stress', general and specific responses to stress and basic similarities and differences in the response to stress between plants and animals (e.g. humans);
- Obtain in-depth understanding of responses of plants to the stresses drought, salinity, mineral nutrition and heavy metals;
- Understand the different strategies that plants use to cope with stress and to integrate responses at various organisational levels (e.g. plant, plant organ, tissue, cell);
- Also, advanced oral and group presentation skills.
Criteria for 4th-year level: In-depth understanding of complex responses; providing a synthesis of knowledge of basic processes of plants to understand their performance in a potentially stressful environment; view current stress concepts and plant responses critically.
Learning outcomes are met through oral presentation - topic related to plant stress of choice, requiring initiative; training of advanced oral and group presentation skills - and through an end of semester essay, requiring synthesis of advanced knowledge in a specified amount of time.
Plant abiotic stress - basic challenges and strategies (if any) to tackle those
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 10 |
Small Group | 10 |
Tutorial | 2 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 103 |
Total | 125 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Essay: In-semester submission of essay | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | No | 50 |
Presentation: Group oral presentation on selected literature & topic | Week 8 | n/a | Graded | No | 50 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Self-assessment activities
Interactive, feedback either way (staff-student)
Name | Role |
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Dr Elke Eichelmann | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Rainer Melzer | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Assoc Professor Carl Ng | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |