Syllabus
1. Plant cell, cell organelles, cell wall
2. Photosynthesis
3. Calvin cycle, C3, C4, and CAM plants
4. Respiration, citric acid cycle, glyoxylate cycle
5. Carbohydrate metabolism
6. Assimilation of nitrogen and biosynthesis of amino acids
7. Metabolism of proteins
8. Assimilation of sulfur and phosphate
9. Metabolism of lipids
10. Secondary metabolites
11. Signalization, regulation
12. Responses to stresses
Annotation
The lecture is focused on biochemical pathways specific for plants:
- Photosynthesis (photosystem I and II, synthesis of ATP and NADPH, Calvin cycle, photorespiration, C4 and CAM photosynthesis)
- Metabolism of saccharides (synthesis and degradation of starch, saccharose and cell wall polysaccharides, glycolysis, pentose phosphate cycle, citric acid cycle, glyoxylic cycle)
- Nitrogen assimilation
- Metabolism of nitrogen compounds (amino acids, storage proteins, secondary metabolites)
- Assimilation and metabolism of S, P
- Metabolism of lipidic compounds (membrane lipids, storage lipids, isoprenoids, sterols)
- Regulation of metabolism
- Plant response to stress conditions (abiotic, biotic)