Plant Physiology

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Being able to comprehend mainly physiological events important in especially production of horticultural plants and understand their importance in growing of horticultural plants
2) Being able to comprehend plant structure; cell and organelles with specialized functions
3) Being able to comprehend the structure and properties of water, its importance and place in horticultural plant growing
4) Being able to comprehend how acquisition and using of mineral nutrients by plants
5) Being able to comprehend the reactions carried out in transpiration and photosynthesis and comment their physiological and ecological importance in horticultural plant growing
6) 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
7) 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.
8) Being able to examine the physiological events occurred in growth and development of plants (from embryogenesis to senescence and cell died).
9) 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
10) 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.
11) Being able to comprehend the physiological events in plants caused to flower development (circadian rhytims, photoperiodism, vernelization), examine the flower development and its control.
12) Being able to comprehend germination physiology, internal and external factors affected the germination, dormancy.
13) Being able to comprehend stress physiology (water, heat, salinity, air pollution) and comment its importance in horticultural plants.