Об этом курсе: For centuries we have collectively marveled at plant diversity and form—from Charles Darwin’s early fascination with stems and flowers to Seymour Krelborn’s distorted doting in Little Shop of Horrors. This course intends to present an intriguing and scientifically valid look at how plants themselves experience the world—from the colors they see to the sensations they feel. Highlighting the latest research in genetics and more, we will delve into the inner lives of plants and draw parallels with the human senses to reveal that we have much more in common with sunflowers and oak trees than we may realize. We’ll learn how plants know up from down, how they know when a neighbor has been infested by a group of hungry beetles, and whether they appreciate the music you’ve been playing for them or if they’re just deaf to the sounds around them. We’ll explore definitions of memory and consciousness as they relate to plants in asking whether we can say that plants might even be aware of their surroundings. This highly interdisciplinary course meshes historical studies with cutting edge modern research and will be relevant to all humans who seek their place in nature. This class has three main goals: 1. To introduce you to basic plant biology by exploring plant senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste, balance). 2. To introduce you to biological research and the scientific method. 3. To get the student to question life in general and what defines us as humans. Once you've taken this course, if you are interested in a more in-depth study of plants, check out my follow-up course, Fundamentals of Plant Biology. In order to receive academic credit for this course you must successfully pass the academic exam on campus. For information on how to register for the academic exam – https://tauonline.tau.ac.il/registration Additionally, you can apply to certain degrees using the grades you received on the courses. Read more on this here – https://go.tau.ac.il/b.a/mooc-acceptance Teachers interested in teaching this course in their class rooms are invited to explore our Academic High school program here – https://tauonline.tau.ac.il/online-highschool
Автор: Tel Aviv University
Преподаватели: Professor Daniel Chamovitz, Ph.D., Dean, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
Director, Manna Center for Plant Biosciences
| Уровень | Beginner |
| Выполнение | 25 hours of videos, quizzes, and reading assignments |
| Язык | English, Субтитры: Arabic, French, Catalan, Portuguese (Brazilian), German, Hebrew, Romanian |
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Программа курса
НЕДЕЛЯ 1
Introduction
Welcome to "What a Plant Knows (and other things you didn't know about plants)". If you have not already, please review the Course Syllabus for general information about this course.
9 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Plug-in non noté: Opening survey
- Plug-in non noté: How to succeed in this course?
- Lecture: How to succeed in this course? PDF version
- Видео: 1.1 Introduction
- Видео: 1.2 Our Life and Plants
- Demande de discussion: What plant could you not live without? why?
- Видео: 1.3 Plants and Biology Research
- Видео: 1.4 Plants and Food Security
- Видео: 1.5 Major Themes in Plant Biology
- Видео: 1.6 Scientific Process
- Видео: 1.7 The Evolution of Plant Structure and Senses
- Видео: 1.8 Plant Evolution
Оцениваемый: Introduction
НЕДЕЛЯ 2
What a Plant Sees?
This week we start a systematic review of a plant's sensory systems by starting with plant responses to light. We will cover an overview of human vision, plant responses to light, Darwin's experiments showing plant responses to light, phototropism, phytochrome and flowering, and modern research on phototropism. In other words, this week we get into more advanced concepts in plant sensory biology. The last module is especially advanced, and will be clearer for those of you with a strong biology background. But do not fret, aside from very basic concepts, this module will NOT be included in the exam (you will not be responsible for understanding the intricacies of the experimental methods, etc.). If you have not already, please review the Course Syllabus for general information about this course.
7 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Lecture: Week 2 - Suggested Reading
- Видео: 2.2 Darwin's Experiment
- Видео: 2.3 Light and Flowering
- Видео: 2.4 Phytochrome: A Light-Activated Switch
- Видео: 2.5 Arabidopsis Blind Mutant
- Видео: 2.6 What a Plant Sees?
- Видео: 2.7 Molecular Biology of Plant Vision
Оцениваемый: What a Plant Sees?
НЕДЕЛЯ 3
What a Plant Smells?
This week we continue our systematic review of a plant's sensory systems by exploring responses to volatile chemicals (in other words, what a plant smells). We start with an overview of the plant cell, briefly review human olfaction (smell), and then explore how fruits know when to ripen. From there we go over three different experiments that explore plant responses to volatile chemicals and start exploring the controversial question, "Do plants communicate with each other?".
7 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Lecture: Week 3 - Suggested Reading
- Видео: 3.2 Lock and Key Mechanism of a Receptor
- Видео: 3.3 Ethylene and Fruit Ripening
- Видео: 3.4 Mechanism of Ethylene Receptor
- Видео: 3.5 Plant Communication: Example 1
- Видео: 3.6 Plant Communication: Example 2
- Видео: 3.7 Inter and Intra Communication
Оцениваемый: What a Plant Smells?
НЕДЕЛЯ 4
What a Plant Feels?
This week we continue our systematic review of a plant's sensory systems by exploring responses to tactile stimulation (in other words, what a plant feels). We start with an overview of the mechano-sensory system that differentiates between different tactile stimulations, briefly review the way electricity is used in neural communication, and then explore how the Venus flytrap knows when to close, and what powers the opening and closing of the Mimosa leaves. We'll learn how plants change their structure to cope with windy conditions, and go over some of the rather complex biology that is involved in the genetic response in plants to being touched. I'll let you know what I think of the question, Do plants feel pain? And then we'll try to understand whether plants hear, and if they do, which music they prefer.
10 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Lecture: Week 4 - Suggested Reading
- Видео: 4.2 How Does the Venus Trap Know When it has been Touched?
- Видео: 4.3 Water and the Plant Cell
- Видео: 4.4 Leaf Movement in Mimosa
- Видео: 4.5 Thigmomorphogenesis
- Видео: 4.6 Genes that Respond to Touch
- Видео: 4.7 Do Plants Feel Pain?
- Demande de discussion: What do you think: do plants feel pain?
- Видео: 4.8 The Sound of Music and Plants
- Видео: 4.9 Plants and Deaf Genes
- Видео: 4.10 Sound Perception in Plants
Оцениваемый: What a Plant Feels?
НЕДЕЛЯ 5
How a Plant Knows Where it is?
This week we continue our systematic review of a plant's sensory systems by exploring the 6th sense - proprioception. We start with an overview of the proprioceptive system that allows us to keep our balance and to know where are body parts are in space. Theמ we will explore how plants know up from down, using both experiments from a few hundred years ago, and experiments conducted on the space station. We'll go over the structure of roots more in detail in order to understand where the cells are that sense gravity. We'll revisit phototropism, and learn what the chemical signal is in plants that allows them to respond to light and gravity. And lastly, we'll learn what makes a plant dance.
8 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Lecture: Week 5 - Suggested Reading
- Видео: 5.2 Plant Response to Gravity
- Видео: 5.3 Gravitropism in Roots
- Видео: 5.4 The Discovery of Auxin
- Видео: 5.5 Auxin Transport
- Видео: 5.6 Auxin and Root Initiation
- Видео: 5.7 Sensing Gravity
- Видео: 5.8 Circumnutation
Оцениваемый: How a Plant Knows Where it is?
НЕДЕЛЯ 6
What a Plant Remembers?
This week we move beyond survey of a plant's sensory systems, and explore how plants retain, store and recall sensory information. In other words, we ask the questions, What do plants remember? We'll try to define what we mean by "memory" and briefly review different types of human memory. The we'll look at the short-term memory found in the Venus fly trap, and the long term morphogenic memory first described 50 years ago by the Czech scientist Rudolf Dostal. We'll have a guest lecture from Prof. Nir Ohad about epigenetics and the long-term memory of winter, and even the role of epigenetics in trans-generational memory.
6 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Lecture: Week 6 - Suggested Reading
- Видео: 6.2 Short Term Memory
- Видео: 6.3 Long Term Memory 1
- Видео: 6.4 Long Term Memory 2 (with Prof. Nir Ohad)
- Видео: 6.5 Epigenetic Heredity
- Видео: 6.6 Intelligent Memory?
- Demande de discussion: What do you mean when you say "intelligent"?
Оцениваемый: What a Plant Remembers?
НЕДЕЛЯ 7
The Aware Plant
This is the final week in our journey through a plant's sense of the world. This week's lecture has two separate parts. In the first part, we continue last week's discussion of a plant's ability to remember to a more theoretical discussion on the definition of memory and consciousness. This leads us to the question, "Are plants intelligent?". We'll hear what some of the students in this class think of intelligence before finishing with a quick examination of "intelligence", and end with my own take on a plant's, and our place, in the world. In the second part we'll go for a tour of my lab and see our plant growth facilities. I'll give you a brief overview of one of the projects in my lab, and you'll meet a few of the students doing the research. And in the end, you'll even get to meet Dr. Aviva Katz.
6 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Lecture: Week 7 - Suggested Reading
- Видео: 7.2 What Do We Mean When We Say "Intelligent"?
- Видео: 7.3 A Tour of the Manna Center
- Видео: 7.4 Research in the Chamovitz Lab
- Видео: 7.5 Food Security
- Plug-in non noté: Post Course Survey
- Видео: Bloopers (oops!)
Оцениваемый: Final
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Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University (TAU) is Israel's largest institution of higher learning – with over 30,000 students and more than 125 schools and departments in nine faculties. Global in outlook and impact, it is consistently ranked among the world's top 100 universities, as well as the top 20 institutions in terms of scientific citations. A spirit of openness and innovation is evident in all of TAU's teaching and research activities, breaking down barriers between disciplines, and boldly striving to address the twenty-first century's most pressing challenges.
Рейтинги и отзывы
Learnt a lot on how plants interact with environment.
I had a great time following this course. The lecturer really makes plant understanding fun and (relatively) easy. Great lessons with many practical explanations, lots of experiments and science history.
I am a biotechnologist working in molecular biology and my studies were mostly focused on humans / mammals. I currently work on plants and wanted to deepen my knowledge of the basis of plant physiology. This course was a great introduction to plants!
Highly recommended.
I am very happy to complete this course. I am looking for more courses from Professor Dr. Daneil Chamovitz in future.
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The professor really makes an effort to make the course interesting. A must-take!