Plant Genomics Approaches to Adapt Plants to a Changing Climate and Environment

This course aims to provide students with basic and advanced knowledge of production, use and cultivation of genetically modified plants as a strategy to mitigate the effects of environmental change understood as:
-climate change
-growth of the world population
-nutritional deficiencies in developing countries
-food security
-anthropization

The course includes topics like genome editing and biodiversity exploitation techniques suitable for plant improvement.

Upon completion of the course, the student will have acquired the fundamental concepts underlying plant genome manipulation and applications of these technologies in the context of developing solutions to adapt cultivated plants to environmental changes.
The student will acquire theoretical and practical tools to independently identify which molecular strategies can be used to modify or transfer characters of different complexity into plants.