Tutor information
Radhika Desikan
Dr Desikan is a plant scientist who has taught plant science for several years and researched and published on the behaviour of plants facing various abiotic and biotic stresses.
Courses
How does the stationary nature of plant life necessitate its connections with other living things? The course will explore plant behaviour as positive, negative, as well as neutral interactions with microbes, animals, plants, as well as humans.
The course will explore the inner workings of cells in organisms that enable them to sense and respond to their environment. Signalling systems that allow communication of an external signal to evoke a cellular response will be examined.
How does a plant live? The course will cover aspects of plant life from the cellular to the organismal level, understand how plants are affected by other organisms, and survive in the changing global environment.