BIOEE 4460 - [Plant Behavior - Induced Plant Responses to Biotic Stresses, Lectures]

(crosslisted)
(also BIONB 4460)

Spring. 3 credits. S-U or letter grade option.

Prerequisite: BIOEE 1610 or permission of instructor. Next offered 2012-2013.

A. Kessler and R. Raguso.

How do plants respond to herbivore attack? What are the molecular, plant hormonal, metabolic mechanisms of these responses? What ecological consequences do these responses have for the fitness of the plants and their attackers? The course provides an overview of the plant’s myriad responses to herbivores and compares them with responses to pathogens. It gives an introduction to the study of induced plant responses in the lectures as well as practical independent and group-intensive work.