NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 藥用植物組織培養(6851)
(Eng.) Plant Tissue Culture
Offering Dept Master Program in Specialty Crops and Metabolomics
Course Type Elective Credits 2 Teacher MA, LI-TING
Department Master Program in Specialty Crops and Metabolomics/Graduate Language English Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description Tissue culture is essential technique to providing stable source of healthy seedling. This course will introduce the history of plant tissue culture, and detailed method and application in detail.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course N
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
1. understand the principle of medical plant culture.
2. learning the technique by practical session.
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Introduction I
Week 2 Introduction II
Week 3 The history of tissue culture.
Week 4 The culture mediums
Week 5 Plant hormones and other supplement in culture mediums
Week 6 Adventitious buds and roots
Week 7 Embryogenic tissue and somatic embryo
Week 8 Gene transformation I
Week 9 Gene transformation II
Week 10 Paper discussion I
Week 11 The application of medical plant tissue culture: Haploid and polyploid
Week 12 The application of medical plant tissue culture: Trait improving
Week 13 Paper discussion II
Week 14 The application of medical plant tissue culture: The production of secondary metabolites
Week 15 The application of medical plant tissue culture: the species conservation
Week 16 The application of medical plant tissue culture: the genetic variation and breeding
Week 17 Paper discussion III
Week 18 Examination
Evaluation
1. Attendance 30%
2. Participation 20%
3. Examination 50%
Textbook & other References
George, E. F., Hall, M. A. and De Klerk, G. -J (2008) Plant propagation by tissue culture: Volume1. The background. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Springer
Jain, S. M., Gupta, P. K. and Newton, R. J. (2000) Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants: Volume 6. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Springer.
Smith, R. H. (1992) Plant tissue culture: techniques and experiments. San Diego, CA Academic Press United States US.
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website

Office Hours
Mon to Fri, 9Am to 5PM
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