Location: Albert Katz International School of Desert Studies at the Sede Boqer Campus of the Ben-Gurion University in Israel.
Dates: 7-9/2/2022
Course Description:
Plants exposed to environmental stresses often exhibit a variety of symptoms or indications. Evaluating physiological and cellular parameters for assessing the severity of stress injury or level of stress tolerance is not always trivial; visual performance ratings are most often subjective. Your neighbour’s lawn always looks greener, although objectively it is not always true. The scientific reasoning behind this claim is that it all depends on literally the angle you are looking at, whether you are looking directly above your lawn, seeing all the open spaces, or looking at your neighbour’s lawn in a certain angle, seeing only the upper green parts. Plant species and cultivars vary in their responses to environmental stresses. The goal of the course is to learn quantitative measurements and instrumentation used to asses stress in plants.