Information Package / Course Catalogue - Adnan Menderes University

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Person Responsible for Information Package

Prof. Engin ERTAN

Prof. Gonca GÜNVER DALKILIÇ

Prof. Uğur ŞİRİN

Prof. Zeynel DALKILIÇ

Lec. Burak Erdem ALGÜL

Lec. Gülbanu GAYRETLİ

Lec. Gülsüm KARAKAYA

Lec. Mustafa ÇELİK

Plant Physiology

Course Code	: BB102
Course Type	: Required
Couse Group	: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language	: Turkish
Work Placement	: N/A

Theory	: 2
Prt.	: 0
Credit	: 2
Lab	: 0
ECTS	: 3

Objectives of the Course

to educate the students who comprehend of important roles of basic physiological events on yield and quantity in horticulture plant growing. and, who lead and control of their knowledges about these events to carried out to growing horticulture plants

Course Content

Cell, tissue, organ description. Water and mineral matter uptake and translocatiion. Transpiration, respiration, organik matter translocation. Growing and development physiology (phytochrome system, plant growth regulators, flowering, stress physiology).

Name of Lecturer(s)

Learning Outcomes

1.	Understanding the physiological processes that are particularly important in horticultural production and recognizing their significance in cultivation.
2.	Ability to understand plant structure; cells and organelles and their functions, and the transport of water and mineral substances within the plant.
3.	To understand the stages through which transpiration, photosynthesis, and respiration occur in plants, and to interpret the physiological and ecological importance of these processes in horticultural cultivation.
4.	Ability to analyze the physiological processes (from embryogenesis to senescence and cell death) that occur in plants and are related to growth and development.
5.	Ability to understand the characteristics, classification, biosynthesis and metabolism, and transport of plant growth rates, and to visualize the properties of these characteristics.

Recommended or Required Reading

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

An overview of plant structure, plant cells and organelles, conduction, structures and functions of basic and support tissues, structure and functions of root, stem and leaf.

Week 2 - Theoretical

The importance of water in plant life, uptake and transport of water, mineral substance deficiencies and their symptoms in plants, uptake and transport of mineral substances

Week 3 - Theoretical

Definition and regulation of transpiration, factors affecting transpiration in plants

Week 4 - Theoretical

Stages of photosynthesis, light reactions and regulation

Week 5 - Theoretical

Carbon reactions of photosynthesis, physiological and ecological importance of photosynthesis

Week 6 - Theoretical

Organic matter transport pathways, patterns and speed, source-to-sink and pressure flow mechanisms

Week 7 - Theoretical

Respiratory metabolism, glycolysis and citric acid cycle, lipid metabolism (Midterm Exam)

Week 8 - Theoretical

Embryogenesis, cell and organelle differentiation, senescence and cell death

Week 9 - Theoretical

Phytochrome system and its importance in plant development, phytochemical and biochemical properties of phytochrome, location in tissues and cells, reactions of plants to the phytochrome system

Week 10 - Theoretical

Definition and classification of plant growth regulators, transport and physiological effects of auxins, effects of gibberellins on growth and development and physiological mechanisms (Quiz)

Week 11 - Theoretical

Cytokinin transport and biological roles, effects of ethylene on plant development and physiology, transport of abscisic acid, effects on plant development

Week 12 - Theoretical

Control of flowering, development of flower organs, photoperiodism, vernelization

Week 13 - Theoretical

Germination physiology, seed water uptake, germination, dormancy, factors affecting germination

Week 14 - Theoretical

Stress physiology, water stress and drought resistance, heat stress, salinity stress, oxygen stress, Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Presentation	1	%5
Quiz	1	%5
Midterm Examination	1	%30
Final Examination	1	%60

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	14	1	2	42
Presentation	1	1	1	2
Quiz	1	1	1	2
Midterm Examination	1	5	1	6
Final Examination	1	22	1	23
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)				75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PÇ-1	PÇ-2	PÇ-3	PÇ-4	PÇ-5	PÇ-6	PÇ-7	PÇ-8	PÇ-9	PÇ-10	PÇ-11
OÇ-1	5	4		4	5	5	5	4	4	4	4
OÇ-2	4					5
OÇ-3	5
OÇ-4	5			4	4		4
OÇ-5	4