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| Code | SRP140 |
| Name | Plant Physiology |
| Semester | 2. Semester |
| Duration (T+A) | 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 4 ECTS |
| National Credit | 3 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Ön Lisans Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | Öğr. Gör.Dr. HAKAN KAVUR |
Course Goal
The aim of this course is; to describe the physiological events in plants
Course Content
Cell-tissue-organ definition. Water and mineral uptake and transport of substances. Transpiration, respiration, photosynthesis, transport of organic matter. Growth and development physiology (fitokrom system, plant growth regulators, flowering, stress physiology).
Course Precondition
There are no prerequisites.
Resources
Lecture notes of the lecturer
Notes
There are no reference.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | Being able to comprehend mainly physiological events important in especially production of horticultural plants and understand their importance in growing of horticultural plants |
| LO02 | Being able to comprehend plant structure; cell and organelles with specialized functions |
| LO03 | Being able to comprehend the structure and properties of water, its importance and place in horticultural plant growing |
| LO04 | Being able to comprehend how acquisition and using of mineral nutrients by plants |
| LO05 | Being able to comprehend the reactions carried out in transpiration and photosynthesis and comment their physiological and ecological importance in horticultural plant growing |
| LO06 | Being able to examine translocation pathways, patterns, rates, mechanism of the plant of organic compounds resulted from photosynthesis and theirs distribution among different organs of the plant |
| LO07 | Being able to comprehend how the respiration is metabolically occurred in plants, its certain specific characteristics of the plant, establish relationship between the recent developments in biochemistry and molecular biology and respiration, comprehend the lipid metabolism and its importance in seed germination. |
| LO08 | Being able to examine the physiological events occurred in growth and development of plants (from embryogenesis to senescence and cell died). |
| LO09 | Being able to comprehend the phytochrome system, its mechanism on the plant at the cellular and molecular level and comment light importance on plant development. |
| LO10 | Being able to comprehend description and classificaton of plant growth regulators, biosynthesis, metabolism and transportation of auxin, cyctokinin, gibberellin, abscisic acid and ethylene and examine their physiological effects on the plants. |
| LO11 | Being able to comprehend the physiological events in plants caused to flower development (circadian rhytims, photoperiodism, vernelization), examine the flower development and its control. |
| LO12 | Being able to comprehend germination physiology, internal and external factors affected the germination, dormancy. |
| LO13 | Being able to comprehend stress physiology (water, heat, salinity, air pollution) and comment its importance in horticultural plants. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLO01 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Knows the status of greenhouse production arount the world and in Turkey | |
| PLO02 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Knows the cover materials and structure techniques of greenhouses | |
| PLO03 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | The effects and importance of global warming for Turkey and the world, learns the effects of climate change on agriculture and greenhouse air conditioning conditions. | 4 |
| PLO04 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Learns the cultivation of plants (summer and winter) in greenhouse and open ground theoretically and practically. | |
| PLO05 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Knows the theoretical and applied ornimental plant production and harvest. | |
| PLO06 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns herbal production techniques and uses these techniques to grow plants. | |
| PLO07 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the importance of agricultural mechanization in plant cultivation and the tools used. | |
| PLO08 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Can scan resources, report and present about plants on the web (Google academic, pubmed etc.). | |
| PLO09 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Recognizes diseases, pests and weeds in vegetables and ornamental plants, learns plant protection methods. | |
| PLO10 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Enters the data of the parameters used in field studies into the computer. | |
| PLO11 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains knowledge about the biology and systematics of plants grown in greenhouse. | 3 |
| PLO12 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns basic ecological concepts, learns the effects of agriculture on ecology. | |
| PLO13 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the impact of agricultural activities on the environment | |
| PLO14 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the effects of bioclimatic variables on agricultural activities. | |
| PLO15 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gets information about the activities that she can attend on the university campus. | |
| PLO16 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gets information about internship places and applications to these places. | |
| PLO17 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains knowledge about metabolic activities in plants. | 5 |
| PLO18 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains knowledge about the importance of plant physiology in plant production. | 5 |
| PLO19 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains knowledge about Soil Properties (Cations adsorption – Anions adsorption – Soil Acidity, soil organic matter, soil structure, soil water, soil color) and soil Formation (Segregation and Fragmentation – Structure (Texture) – Clay Minerals). | |
| PLO20 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns soil horizons, parent material, understands the importance of data obtained by soil science. | |
| PLO21 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Understands the definition and scope of agricultural economy and the place and importance of the agricultural sector in the Turkish economy. | |
| PLO22 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the fertilizers used in plant nutrition and their importance. | |
| PLO23 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the micro and macro nutrients required for plant growth and the functions of these elements in plants. | |
| PLO24 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the necessary amounts of plant nutrients for plants and the importance of correct and balanced nutrition in plant production. | |
| PLO25 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns soilless culture environments and makes cultivation in soilless agriculture. | |
| PLO26 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the importance of storage and the necessary conditions/conditions for the storage of harvested products. | |
| PLO27 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Certified seed, hybrid seed etc. learns the concepts of seeds and the points to be considered in seed growing. | |
| PLO28 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the basic concepts of organic agriculture and vegetable growing with this method. | |
| PLO29 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns the importance of occupational health and safety in agricultural activities and the measures to be taken. | |
| PLO30 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Have general information about Atatürk's principles and the history of the revolution. | |
| PLO31 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns languages in terms of language and its importance, the birth, spread and structure of languages. | |
| PLO32 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Learns tenses, auxiliary verbs, prepositions in English. |
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A general overview of plant structure, plant cells and organelles, transportation, structures and functions of ground and support tisues, structure and functions of root, stem and leaf. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 2 | The importance of water in the life of plant, water absorption and transportation, deficiencies of mineral nutrients and their symptoms in plants, absorption and transportation of minerals. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 3 | The description and regulation of transpiration, the factors affected on transpiration. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 4 | Photosynthesis reactions, the light reactions of photosynthesis and their regulation. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 5 | The carbon reactions of photosynthesis, physiological and ecological considerations of photosynthesis. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 6 | The pathways, patterns and velocities of organic solutes translocation, the mechanism of pressure flow and pressure gradient from source to sink hypothesis. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 7 | The respiration metabolism, glycolysis and citric acid cycles, lipid metabolism. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | Preparing for the exam | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
| 9 | Embriogenesis, cell and organelle differentiation, senescence and cell died. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 10 | Phytochrome system and its importance in plant development, the photocemical and biochemical properties of phytochrome, phytochrome localization in tissues and cells, plant responses to phytochrome system. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 11 | Description, classification of plant growth regulators, transportation and physiological effects of auxins, the effects on plant growth and development and physiological mechanism of gibberellins. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 12 | Transportation and biological roles of cyctokinins, the effects on plant development and physiology of ethylene, abscisic acid transportation and their effects in plant development. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 13 | The control of flowering, the development of flower organs, photoperiodism, vernalization. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 14 | Germination physiology, water absorption by seed, germination, dormancy, the factors affected germination. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 15 | Stress physiology, water stress and drought resistance, heat stress, salinity stress, oxygen stress. | Preliminary research on the subject | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 16 | Term Exams | Preparing for the exam | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
| 17 | Term Exams | Preparing for the exam | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 18 | 18 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 109 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 4,36 | ||
| ECTS | 4 ECTS | ||