Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
9900001010	PLANT PHYSIOLOGY	Compulsory	2	4	5

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To explain the occurrence of physiological events in plants, maintenance and termination of basic problems by the laws of physics and chemistry for training of superior quality and quantity of plants. To examine the physiological processes of each in plants.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Yrd. Doç. Dr. Ösmetullah ARVAS

Learning Outcomes

1	Can explain the events during the lifes of plants and changes in the active substances that effects these events.
2	Can explain the problems of germination, growth and development in a plant. a result of changes in substances
3	Can explain the interest of encountered problems and plant physiology in plant breeding
4	Can evaluate the effectiveness of various agricultural practices;
5	Can explain the uptake and trasportation of the water in plants;
6	Can explain the ways of losing water in plants.;
7	Can explain the uptake methods of plant nutrients.;

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	General information about plant cells and the cell structures, structures of cell organels and their functions in cell.
2	Structure and quantities of water, events that took place in the transport of water
3	Water potential, factors of forming the water potential of the cell, water potential difference and water input and output in cell, relation between turgor pressure and volume changes in cell.
4	Water in soil and water availability in soil. Rooth system which plays role in collection and transportation of water, rooth structure, transportation of photosyntetic products to the rooth system, water uptake and its transportation to the rooth system. Structure of xylem and the mechanisms of transportation of the water into xylem.
5	Transpration mechanisms, transpration rate, unit and speed, stomatal structure, size and distributions in plants, opening and closing mechanisms of stomata and influence factors of these machanisms.
6	Transpiration determination methods, reduction methods of transpiration and losing water in liquid form
7	Soil and plant relations, ion absorbsion and changes in soil, soil pH , rooth growth and nutrient availability, nutient absorbsion sites of rooth and transportation of the nutrients to the rooth domain.
8	General evaluation of the course and Midterm exam
9	Absorpsion of nutrients by rooths, basic principles of nutrient absorpsion, the effectiveness of mycorrhiza fungus in absorption of nutrients.
10	Transport of nutrients in cell membranes radial transport of nutrients to xylem and looding to xylem, taking nutrients by plant leaves.
11	Definition of photosyntesis, the importance and history, pigmets which play role in the formation of photosyntesis, light energy and properties which play roles in photosyntesis.
12	Principal reactions that occur in photosyntesis cyclic and acyclic phosphorilation, carbondioxide assimilation in C3,C4 and CAM plants, the synthesis of starch and saccarose, affecting factors of photosyntesis.
13	Transport of the products of photosyntesis phloem transport mechanisms, the distribution of photosyntetic products in plants.
14	Respiration in plants and its significance, comparison of respiration and photosyntesis, factors that affect respiration.
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Recommended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	1	1
Attending Lectures	14	3	42
Field Trip	2	4	8
Self Study	4	6	24
Individual Study for Homework Problems	1	20	20
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	20	20
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	20	20
Reading	8	3	24
Homework	1	1	1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			161

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12	PO 13	PO 14	PO 15	PO 16	PO 17	PO 18	PO 19	PO 20
LO1	3	3	4		5	4
LO2	2	4	4		1	3
LO3	5	5	2		3	4
LO4	2	2	2		4	4
LO5	4	2	5		5	5
LO6	4	2	4		2	4
LO7	2	3	4		3	5

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High