Plant Biology Skills

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In this practical course, you have the opportunity to further explore and assimilate the knowledge on plants acquired in the course Plants and Microbes and is specifically interesting for students interested in the Sustainable Biotechnology concentration. You dissect plant organs and learn more about the correspondence between the morphological and physiological aspects of a plant throughout its lifecycle. You learn how to make protoplasts from intact tissues by enzymatic digestion of the cell wall and test the effect of osmotic pressure on intact cells and protoplasts. You observe the differences between plant cell types from various organs as well as protoplasts under the microscope. You also become familiar with plant cell cultures techniques used to propagate and genetically manipulate plants. You understand how a plant suspension culture can be established starting from a differentiated tissue, and learn how from a single cell of a differentiated leaf tissue a whole new plant can be regenerated.