Syllabus
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Course Code: BOT-304 Course Name: d) Advanced Plant Physiology (elective) |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | water stress Drought, its definition and quantification, water deficit and plant growth, physiological and biochemical functions, responses injury affected by drought, Adaptive strategies for drought resistance. Osmotic adjustment, osmoprotectants. Water logging/ oxygen deficiency and its effects on plant growth. |
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| 2 | Salt and temperature stress: Salt stress; Saline and alkaline soils, salt stress injury, mechanism of salt stress and halophytes. Temperature stress; high temperature stress, heat shock proteins, chilling and frost injury and mechanism of tolerance. |
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| 3 | Photosynthesis: The four major complexes of thylakoids. The path of carbon in photosynthesis (C3, C4 and CAM plants) Rubisco, structure and its association with the mechanism of carboxylation and oxygenation of RUBP. Effect of environmental factors on photosynthetic rates. Translocation of photosynthates and its importance in sink growth. |
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| 4 | Respiration: Cyanide insensitive respiration: Mechanism and significance. Comparison between normal electron transport chain and alternate oxidase pathway of respiration. Glycolic acid metabolism and photorespiration. Glyoxylate cycle. Respiration in intact plants and tissues. |
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