Course Information
Course title
植物病原交互作用分子機制
Molecular Plant-microbe Interactions 
Semester
106-1 
Designated for
GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF PLANT PATHOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY  
Instructor
沈偉強 
Curriculum Number
PPM5042 
Curriculum Identity Number
633 U1110 
Class
01 
Credits
2.0 
Full/Half
Yr.
Half 
Required/
Elective
Elective 
Time
Thursday 7,8(14:20~16:20) 
Room
總一館115 
Remarks
與林乃君、劉瑞芬、葉信宏、賴爾、鄭秋萍合授
The upper limit of the number of students: 20. 
Ceiba Web Server
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1061PPM5042_01 
Course introduction video
 
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
Course Syllabus
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Course Description

This course will bring an overview of sophisticated strategies involved in pathogen infection and plant immunity; which include strategies adopted by bacteria, fungi, oomycetes and viruses. Especially focused on their physiological, biochemical and molecular events that leads to plant disease or immunity. 

Course Objective
This course will bring an overview of sophisticated strategies involved in pathogen infection and plant immunity. 
Course Requirement
待補 
Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week)
 
Office Hours
 
Designated reading
待補 
References
各授課教師指定 
Grading
 
No.
Item
%
Explanations for the conditions
1. 
Midterm exam 
42% 
(18%, 12%, 12%) 
2. 
Final exam 
30% 
(12%, 12%, 6%) 
3. 
Nonthesis proposal poster presentation  
28% 
E-format for presentation 10月19日繳交non-thesis proposal題目及引用文獻 
 
Progress
Week
Date
Topic
第1週
9/14  Overview of Molecular Plant-Pathogen Interaction 
第2週
9/21  Plant Defense (1): Nonhost resistance (innate immunity) 
第3週
9/28  Weapons of pathogens: The functions of effector genes
Plant Defense (2): Host resistance (gene-for-gene resistance) 
第4週
10/05  Plant Defense (3): Other mechanisms 
第5週
10/12  Phytophthora-plant interaction (1)
Phytophthora pathogenesis: What can we learn from the genomes of Phytophthora spp.? 
第6週
10/19  Phytophthora-plant interaction (2)
The functions of elicitins, elicitors and avr proteins produced by Phytophthora 
第7週
10/26  Blast fungus-rice interaction (1)
Attachment and penetration of plant fungal pathogen-Pathogenesis of Rice blast fungus 
第8週
11/02  Blast fungus-rice interaction (2)
Host colonization of plant fungal pathogen-Invasive growth and translocation of Magnaporthe oryzae effector proteins 
第9週
11/09  Midterm exam 
第10週
11/16  Ralstonia and plant interaction (1)
Ralstonia solanacearum pathogenesis 
第11週
11/23  Ralstonia and plant interaction (2)
Plant defense 
第12週
11/30  Agrobacterium and plant interaction (1)
Agrobacterium pathogenesis and T-DNA transfer  
第13週
12/07  Agrobacterium and plant interaction (2)
Plant response and transformation 
第14週
12/14  Virus-plant Interaction 
第15週
12/21  Non-thesis proposal poster presentation (1) 
第16週
12/28  Non-thesis proposal poster presentation (2) 
第17週
1/04  Non-thesis proposal poster presentation (3)