Plant Development and Metabolic Regulation

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Plant development and metabolic regulation

ECTS-fiche: https://onderwijsaanbod.kuleuven.be/syllabi/e/G0G45AE.htm

Examenvragen

28/01/2026

COP/DET (5)

Regulation of G1/S and G2/M (3)

Briefly discuss: sweet immunity, AP2 and miR172 in flowering, WOX figure, the influence of galactanase on AGP (possible paper part) (2 each)

22/01/2026

Apical dominance: fill in scheme + explain (4)

Lateral root formation + hormones. Do environmental factors have an influence? Use schemes (4)

Shorter: (2 each)

• Sweet immunity

• Mechanism of N-terminal domain of EIN2 in ethylene response

• RIN in tomato

• Mechanism of flowering and vernalisation in wheat

29/01/2025

Apical dominance: fill in scheme + explain

Explain the formation of root hair cells

Briefly discuss: wound priming (sweet immunity), CTR mutant related to ethylene, coincidence model in Ara and rice, role of fructan in barley seeds

23/01/2025

Explain COP/DET mutant in relation to photomorphogenesis and skotomorphogenesis and explain the mechanisms in detail.

Given: the picture about vasculature and with the leaf gap and sometimes leafs cut off etc -> explain the context of this figure/ this figure.

Briefly discuss: T6P and flowering, sugar and hormones for bud outgrowth, drought with wt, smr1 mutant and SMR1 OE, difference between elicitor and priming

31/01/2024

Explain the formation of root hair cells

Apical dominance: fill in scheme + explain

Briefly discuss

coincidence model in Ara and rice

sweet immunity

CTR mutant related to ethylene

SMR1 and ratio stomata/ pavement cells

25/01/2024

- explain COP/DET

- explain figure about vasculature formation

briefly discuss:

a) Role of T6P during flowering

b) Hormone/sugar signals for outgrowth of rose bud

c) role of miR172 in floral organ identity

d) drought tolerance of WT, smr1, SMR1 over expressing lines. which mechanisms are in play?

30/08/2022

- explain the formation of root hair cells (7)

-Discuss clonal analysis and average cell numbers (5)

briefly discuss: (8, 2 each)

a) ABCE floral system

b) Sweet immunity

c) BHP role in root cells fate

d) what happens when QC cells get Lazer ablated? and how can we visualise that?

03/02/2022

COP/DET

Roothair formation, positioning, growth

Smaller questions: a)coincidence model

b)Give 3 shoot apical meristem mutants and the phenotype

c)sweet immunity

d)Influence of miRNA and sugar on stress and development. Role of SPL and DELLA.

22 januari 2021

COP/DET en mutanten die hielpen bij dit te onderzoeken

regulation G1/S and S/M transition.

Small questions a)Sweet immunity

b)hoe kan je invertase enzym activiteit bepalen in een plant extract

c)Wox figure explain

22 januari 2021

wortelhaarvorming uitleggen

COP/DET

a) sweet immunity

b)de rol van suikers & mirna in maturatie van plant

c)hoe kan je invertase enzym activiteit bepalen in een plant extract

17/01/2019

COP/DET

regulation G1/S and S/M transition.

Explain briefly: a) sweet priming

b) polarity in Fucus

c) explain the figure: WOX

17/01/2019

Apical dominance: fill in scheme + explain

roothair formation

Smaller questions: a) coincidence model in Ara and rice

b) sweet immunity

c) influence of miRNA and sugar on stress and development