Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering

UPCT

Genetics

Qualification:

Degree in Agri-food Engineering and Biological Systems

Course 2015/2016

1. Subject Information

Name Genetics

Matter * Genetics

Module * Common materials

Code 518103006

Degree Degree in Agricultural Engineering and Biological Systems

Study plan 2013

Centre Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineering (ETSIA)

Type Compulsory

teaching period four-month period Four-month

period 1st Course 3rd

Language Spanish and English

ECTS 3 Hours / ECTS 30 Total workload (hours) 90

* All terms marked with an asterisk are defined in References for teaching at the

UPCT and Glossary of terms:

http://repositorio.bib.upct.es/dspace/bitstream/10317/3330/1/isbn8469531360.pdf

2. Teacher information

Lecturer in charge Julia Weiss

Department Agricultural Science and Technology

Knowledge area Genetics

Location of the office 2nd floor, office 2.15 - ETSIA

Phone 968325777 Fax 968325433

E-mail julia.weiss@upct.es

URL / WEB http://www.upct.es/~etsia/

Timetable available / Tutorials Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday from 13.00 to 15.00

Location during the tutorials Office 2.15; 2nd floor - ETSIA

Teaching and research

profile

Eng. Agronomist at the University of Bonn, Germany, and Doctor by Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; Title approved by the UPCT

University titular Professor

Teaching experience

13 years as professor in the Department of Genetics (Dept. Of Agricultural Science and Technology) UPCT.

Teaching degree in Agricultural Engineering, Engineering Degree in Horticulture and Gardening and Master in Advanced Techniques of Agricultural and Food Research and Development.

Two teaching five-year periods

Research Lines

Genetics of floral development and architecture:

Interactions between environmental effects and development in plants:

DNA technology for genome studies and diagnosis

Professional

experience 3 recognized six-year teaching periods

Other topics of interest

Professor Marcos Egea Gutiérrez-Cortines

Department Agricultural Science and Technology

Knowledge area Genetics

Location of the office 2nd floor, office 2.20 - ETSIA

Phone 968325707 Fax 968325433

E-mail marcos.egea@upct.es

URL / WEB http://www.upct.es/~etsia/

Timetable available / Tutorials Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday from 13.00 to 15.00

Location during the tutorials Office 2.20; 2nd floor - ETSIA

Teaching and research

profile Titular Professor of university

Teaching experience titular Professor of university

Teaching Quinquenniums: 4

Research Lines Developmental genetics, plant development, chronobiology, secondary metabolism

Professional

experience Six-year research periods: 3

Other topics of interest

Teacher evaluation results last two years:

• 2012-13 9.04 / 7.06 (average teacher / average titration)

• 2013-14 9.43 / 7.99 (average teacher / average titration)

3. Contents

3.1 Contents according to the study plan of the subject

1. Introduction

2. Section I. TRANSMISSION OF HEREDITARY MATERIAL

3. Section II. NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF HEREDITARY MATERIAL

4. Section III. EXPRESSION OF GENETIC INFORMATION

5. Section IV POPULATION GENETICS AND QUANTITATIVE INHERITANCE

3.2 English program theory (Teaching units and topics)

Teaching Unit 1. INTRODUCTION Genetics as basic and applied science; history of Genetics; the important of Genetics in agrobiological sciences

TRANSMISSION OF THE HEREDITARY MATERIAL

Topic 1. Mendelian principles of inheritance. Topic 2. Extensions of mendelian analysis. Topic 3. Chromosome theory of inheritance and variations. Topic 4. Ligation and recombination in eukaryotes.

Teaching Unit 2. NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF THE HEREDITARY MATERIAL Topic 5. Nature, composition and structure of the hereditary material. Topic 6. Organization of the hereditary material.

Topic 7. Replication and reparation of DNA. Teaching Unit 3. Expression OF THE GENETIC INFORMATION

Topic 8. Primary activity of the genes and DNA transcription. Topic 9. Genetic code and synthesis of proteins. Topic 10. Gene mutations and transposable elements. Topic 11. Developmental genetics. Topic 12. Molecular analysis and technology of recombinant DNA. Topic 13. Agricultural biotechnology and plant breeding.

Teaching Unit 4. QUANTITATIVE AND POPULATION GENETICS

Topic 14. Population genetics and evolution.

Topic 15. Inheritance of quantitative characters.

4. Bibliography and resources

4.1 Basic bibliography *

Didactic Unit 1-4:

• Allard, R.W. (1999) 2.ed. Principles of plant breeding

• Cubero, J.I. (2003) 2.ed. Introducción a la mejora genética vegetal

• Falconer, D.S. & MacKay, T.F.C. (1996) 4.ed. Introduction to quantitative genetics.

• Futuyma, D.J. (2009) 2.ed. Evolution

• Glick, B.R. & Pasternak, J.J. (2003) 3.ed. Molecular biotechnology

• Griffiths, A.J.F. et al (2008) 9.ed. Genética

• Hartl, D.L & Clarck, A.D. (2007) 4.ed. Principles of Populations Genetics

• Hartwell, L. et al (2010) 4.ed. Genetics: From genes to genomes

• Izquierdo-Rojo, M. (2001) 2.ed. Ingeniería Genética y Transferencia Génica

• Lacadena, J.R. (1999) Genética General

• Kearsey, MJ & Pooni, H.S. (1996) Genetical Analysis of Quantitative Traits

• Klug, W.S. & Cummings, M.R (2005) 8.ed. Conceptos de Genética

• Lewin, B. 2002. Genes VII

• Puertas, M.J. (1999) 2.ed. Genetica. Fundamentos y Perspectivas

• Sanchez-Monge, E. & Jouvén N. (1989) Genética

• Singer, M. & Berg, P. (1991) Genes y genomas

• Snustand, P& Simmonds,.M.J. (2002) 3.ed. Principles of Genetics

• Snyder, L & Champness, W. (2002) 2.ed. Molecular genetics of bacteria

• Lynch, M. & Walsh, B. (1998) Genetics and Analysis of quantitative traits

4.2.Complementary bibliography *

Didactic Unit 1:

• Lyson, T.A. (2002). Advanced agricultural biotechnologies and sustainable

agriculture. Trends in Biotechnology 20: 193-196

• Koshland, D. (1994). Mitosis: back to the basics. Cell 77:951-954.

• Lacadena, J.R. (1985). Comportamiento cromosómico. Investigación y Ciencia 110:

92-103.

• Lacadena, J.R. (1996). Citogenética. Editorial Complutense

• Moreno, S. (1992). Así comienza la mitosis. Investigación y Ciencia 187: 62-69.

• Stebbins, G.L. (1947). Types of polyploids: their classification and significance.

Advances in Genetics 1: 403-429.

• Voeller, B.R. (1968). The chromosome theory of inheritance. Classic papers in

development and heredity. Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Didactic unit 2

• Dickerson, R.E. (1984). La hélice del ADN y su lectura. Investigación y Ciencia 89: 42-

57.

• Subirana, J.A. (1985). Estructura del ADN. Editorial Alhambra.

• Zimmerman, S.B. (1982). The three-dimensional structure of DNA. Annual Review of

Biochem. 51: 395-427.

• Britt, A.B. (1999). Molecular genetics of DNA repair in higher plants. Trends in Plant

Science 4: 20-25.

• Kornberg, A. & Baker, T. (2005). 2.ed. DNA replication. University Science Books.

• Ogawa, T. & Okazaki, T. (1980). Discontinuos DNA replication. Annual Review of

Biochem. 49: 421-457.

Didactic unit 3

• Rogers, J.H. (1989). How were introns inserted into nuclear genes? Trends in

Genetics 5: 79-85.

• Shan, G. (2010). RNA interference as a gene knockdown technique. The

International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology 42: 1243–1251

• Biémont, C. & Brookfield, J.F. (1996). Los genes saltadores: patrimonio manipulable.

Mundo Científico, 170: 642-647.

• Kreuzer, H. & Massey, A. (1996). Recombinant DNA and biotechnology: A guide for

teachers. American Society for Microbiology

• Morozova, O. & Marra, M.A. (2008). Applications of next-generation sequencing

Technologies in functional genomics. Genomics 92: 255-264.

• Mullis, K.B. (1990). Reacción en cadena de la polimerasa. Investigación y Ciencia

165: 30-47.

• Coen, E.S. (1991). The role of homeotic genes in flower development and evolution.

Annual Review Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 42: 241-79.

• De Robertis, E.M. Oliver, G. & Wright, C.V.E. (1990). Genes con homeobox y el plan

corporal de los vertebrados. Investigación y Ciencia 168: 14-21.

• Delgado-Benarroch, L., Weiss, J. & Egea-Cortines, M. (2009) Floral organ size

control: interplay between organ identity, developmental compartments and

compensation mechanisms. Plant Signalling and Behaviour. 9:1-4

• Egea-Cortines, M. & Davies, B. 2000. Beyond the ABCs: ternary complex formation

in the control of floral organ identity. Trends in Plant Sciences.5: 471-476

• Lawrence, P. 1992. The making of a fly. Blackwell Scientific Publ.

Didactic Unit 4:

• Darwin, C. (1982). El origen de las especies. Ediciones EDAF. (Es una traducción de

su histórico libro On the Origin of Species, publicado originalmente en 1859).

• Frézal, L. & Leblois, R. (2008) Four years of DNA barcoding: Current advances and

prospects. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 8 :727–736.

• Page, R.D.M. & Holmes, E.C. (1998). Molecular evolution. A phylogenetic approach.

Blackwell Scientific. Publ.

• Lander, E.S. & Schork, N.J. (1994). Genetic dissection of complex traits. Science, 265:

2037-2048.

• López-Fanjul de Argüelles, C. (1984). La propiedades genéticas de los caracteres

cuantitativos. En: En el Centenario de Mendel: La Genética ayer y hoy. Ed.

Alhambra.

• Tanksley, S.D. (1993). Mapping polygenes. Annual Review of Genetics 27: 205-233.

• Wu, R., Ma, C. & Casella, G. (2010) Statistical Genetics of Quantitative Traits:

Linkage, Maps and QTL. Springer.

• Young, N.D. (1996). QTL Mapping and Quantitative Disease Resistance in Plants.

Annual Review of Phytopath. 34: 479-501.

4.3 Network resources and other resources

Didactic Unit 1:

o http://www.biologia.edu.ar/genetica/

o http://www.biology.arizona.edu/mendelian_genetics/mendelian_genetics.htm

l

o http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/chromosomal-abnormalities-

aneuploidies-290

Didactic Unit 2:

o http://cnx.org/content/m11411/latest/

o http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/dna-packaging-nucleosomes-and-

chromatin-310

o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36UDFKEpc2E

Didactic Unit 3:

o http://www.dnalc.org/resources/animations/pcr.html

o http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/pcr/realtime-home.htm

o http://www.biology.arizona.edu/developmental_bio/developmental_bio.html

Didactic Unit 4:

o http://statgen.ncsu.edu/

o http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zbook/book.html

Virtual classroom UPCT