Advanced English
for Plant Biologists
spring 2013
Lesson No. 1
M. Bartak

Correct mistakes in the following sentences
nWhen did you born?
When were you born?
nI'll going to explain the problem.
nShe wore her mother skirt.
nI saw yesterday in the field my friends.
I am going to explain the problem.
She wore her mother´s skirt.
nI didn't understood this lesson good.
I haven't understood this lesson well.
I saw my friends yesterday in the field.

Advanced English
for Plant Biologists
spring 2013
Plant physiological ecology; Stress physiology; Root ecology; Consequences, patterns and mechanisms
of root water leakage (hydraulic lift); Mechanisms of drought, salinity, and low nutrient
acclimation and adaptation in plants; Mechanisms of competition for nutrients and water;
Applications of plant physiological ecology to restoration and conservation in stressful
environments.
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Drought stress
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Advanced English
for Plant Biologists
spring 2013
Leaves of the tomato mutant chloronerva.
This mutant lacks nicotianamine and is
therefore impaired in iron transport
NV1_f31
www.eead.csic.es/stressphysiology

Advanced English
for Plant Biologists
spring 2013
Tobacco plants stressed by drought
tobacco_drought_stress

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for Plant Biologists
spring 2013
To test for salinity tolerance, leaf disks from T0 transgenic plants and WT tobacco were floated
separately on 0 and 300 mM NaCl for 72 h. Salinity-induced loss of chlorophyll was lower in Ga1
overexpressing lines (sense) compared with those from the WT (Fig 2A). However, Gβ overexpressing
lines (sense) showed no difference when compared to WT plants (Fig. 2B).
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Advanced English
for Plant Biologists
spring 2013
Cd-induced stress.
hessfly_dam1

nHaiyan Yang , Guoxin Shi, , Hongxia Wang, Qinsong Xu (2010): Aquatic Toxicology,  Elsevier
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Control
Cadmium
treated

Vacuolar sequestration of heavy metals in plant cell. Following the uptake through transporters
such as ZIP (zinc/iron-regulated transporters) family members, heavy metal ions like Cd2+ enters
the cytosol and it stimulates the glutathione-derived synthesis of phytochelatins (PCs) by PC
synthases (PCS). PCs bind cytosolic Cd2+ to form the low-molecular-weight (LMW) complex first,
which is transported into the vacuole via a tonoplast-localized ATP-binding-cassette (ABC)
transporter. In the
vacuole, LMW Cd-complex then accumulate into high-molecular-weight (HMW)
nWhere do you think Cd ions are accumulated inside a plant cell?
nSource: Agricultural and Biological Sciences » "Abiotic Stress in Plants - Mechanisms and
Adaptations", book edited by Arun Shanker and B. Venkateswarlu, ISBN 978-953-307-394-1, Published:
September 22, 2011 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license
nChapter 4
nTowards Understanding Plant Response to Heavy Metal Stress
nBy Zhao Yang and Chengcai Chu
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Advanced English
for Plant Biologists
spring 2013
herbivory
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What is that animal?

Advanced English
for Plant Biologists
spring 2013
Detached leaves inoculated with a fungal pathogen emit different number and amounts of volatiles.
It is now interesting to see if we are able to measure stress related plants volatiles in a
greenhouse.  The main objective of this research is to determine the change in emission of volatile
compounds in a greenhouse.
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