Information Package / Course Catalogue
Stress and Adaptation Mechanisms in Plants
Course Code: ZBY634
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 8
Objectives of the Course

To teach the adaptation mechanisms that develop against stress and stress factors in plants, to explain the antioxidant defense system and the effect of plant growth regulators. Improvement of stress resistance in plants.

Course Content

Biotic and abiotic stress in plants, heat stress, drought stress, salinity stress, light stress, heavy metal stress. Reactive oxygen species and antioxidant enzymes. Approaches to the development of stress-resistant genotypes

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