Plant Molecular Biology

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The course will focus on nuclear, chloroplastic, and mitochondrial genomes structure, expression, regulation, and transposable elements. Other topics such as lipids and carbohydrates metabolism, respiration, photosynthesis, hormones biosynthesis and signal transduction, response to pathogens and abiotic stresses, mineral nutrition, senescence, cell death, some aspects of secondary metabolism will also be covered.