BIO324 Plant Adaptation to Climate and Pollution

Knowledge

• Can define and discuss the meaning of acclimation, phenotypic plasticity, evolutionary adaptation, stress, resistance and tolerance. Can give examples of such phenomena.
• Can describe and explain how temperature, water, light, CO2, salt and pollutants affect physiological processes and may cause stress and regulate growth and development. Can describe and explain interactions in the effects that these factors have on plants.
• Can describe and explain mechanisms that enable plants to cope with different types of abiotic stress.
• Can describe acclimation processes.
• Can describe and explain how climate change has affected plant function, species distribution, phenology, agricultural plant production up to now, and how it is projected to affect these aspects in the future.
• Can give examples of roles that life strategy, acclimation, phenotypic plasticity and genetic variation have for natural plant populations, and plant breeding, in the face of climate change and pollution.

Skills

• Can read, understand and communicate scientific literature.
• Can take part in discussions of themes related to plants, climate and environmental stress with arguments based on scientific knowledge.

General competence

• Can use knowledge from this subject to solve problems in land-based plant production, plant breeding or nature management.
• Can use knowledge from this subject in advisory and informational activities, teaching and research.