Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• Outline the concept of plant developmental biology
• Describe the various phases in the life cycle of an angiosperm plant
• Explain the characteristic features of plant growth and development
• Summarise the various developmental phases of plant architecture
• Identify the role of plasticity in plant growth and development
• Discuss the process of determining the cell fate of plants
• Explain ways of generating and identifying a particular developmental mutant
• Describe the process of analysing the inheritance pattern of genes
• Discuss the procedure for identifying and isolating a gene
• Summarise the process of analysing the expression pattern of genes
• Explain the functional characterisation process of genes
• Recognise the significance of gene-interaction studies for plant development