TAB124 Plant Physiology

3 ECTS - 3-0 Duration (T+A)- 2. Semester- 3 National Credit

Information

Code TAB124
Name Plant Physiology
Semester 2. Semester
Duration (T+A) 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week)
ECTS 3 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 Learns the medicinal and aromatic plants that are extensively cultivated in the world and in Turkey, learns about their general characteristics, soil and climate requirements and usage areas. 3
PLO02 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı Can scan resources, report and present about plants on the web (Google academic, pubmed etc.). 3
PLO03 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns different production techniques and cultivates plants with these methods. 4
PLO04 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Knows about medicinal plant, aromatic plant, spice plants, dye plants, joy plants 2
PLO05 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı Knows to obtain essential oils and making parfume under laboratory conditions
PLO06 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns the production methods of medicinal and aromatic plants in field conditions and realizes the harvest.
PLO07 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns the usage of medicinal and aromatic plants in phytoteraphy and aromateraphy
PLO08 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns the importance of agricultural mechanization in plant cultivation and the tools used.
PLO09 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Organizes the pictures of plants in the computer environment, enters the data of the parameters used in the field studies into the computer environment.
PLO10 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns the importance, benefits and interpretation of plant and soil analysis.
PLO11 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Gains knowledge about the biology and systematics of medicinal and aromatic plants.
PLO12 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Gains knowledge about the medicinal and aromatic plants that grow in our country and their use in medicine.
PLO13 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Gains knowledge about the effects of plant production on ecology.
PLO14 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Gains knowledge about the effects of bioclimatic variables on crop production.
PLO15 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Gets information about the activities that she can attend on the university campus.
PLO16 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Gains information about internship places and applications to these places.
PLO17 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns the metabolic activities in plants and the importance of plant physiology in plant production. 5
PLO18 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı Learns how to obtain seeds and genetic modifications of seeds in the production of medicinal and aromatic plants.
PLO19 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns genetically modified plant products and rules about their use.
PLO20 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Gain knowledge about the molecular structure of plants.
PLO21 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Have knowledge about vegetable proteins and vitamins of plant origin.
PLO22 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Have theoretical knowledge about production methods based on biotechnology in plant production.
PLO23 Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı Recognizes dye pigments in dye plants, knows the relationship between textile and dye plants, creates a color range with mordanting, dyes with traditional methods.
PLO24 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Knows how to extract oils from plants and smell test, she can evaluate notes with scents, she mixes oils according to notes in making perfume.
PLO25 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns to protect medicinal aromatic plants with their bioactive substances, to preserve their chemical quality in storage.
PLO26 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns the importance, benefits and interpretation of plant and soil analysis.
PLO27 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Prepares chemical solutions, interprets chemistry instrumental analyses.
PLO28 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns the pests, diseases and weeds in medicinal and aromatic plants and the plant protection methods used to combat them.
PLO29 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns the importance and methods of occupational health and safety in agricultural activities.
PLO30 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns the micro and macro nutrients required for plant growth, their function, importance and amount in plants.
PLO31 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Understands the definition and scope of agricultural economy and the place and importance of the agricultural sector in the Turkish economy.
PLO32 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).
PLO33 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns tenses, auxiliary verbs, prepositions in English.
PLO34 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Gains knowledge about Atatürk's principles and the history of the revolution.
PLO35 Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal Learns languages ​​in terms of language and its importance, the birth, spread and structure of languages.


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 2 28
Assesment Related Works
Homeworks, Projects, Others 0 0 0
Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 6 6
Final Exam 1 10 10
Total Workload (Hour) 86
Total Workload / 25 (h) 3,44
ECTS 3 ECTS