This laboratory course will have an introduction (1 ECT) common to all students and the students are required to choose three modules (each 3 ECTS) among the following four modules:

1) Plant organogenesis and protoplast transformation

2) Basic molecular techniques (purification, detection and quantification of nucleic acids, e.g. southern blotting and real time-PCR)

4) Phytotron techniques (growing of plant in a controlled environment)

5) Qualitative and quantitative analysis of biologically active molecules (extraction and general chromatography, liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, spectroscopy and mass spectrometry)