Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
0701206102TECHNICAL OF FRUIT GROWINGElective362
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
This course is purposed that Students are teached the propagation types of fruit crops, basic concepts related to propagation, importance of the vegetative propagation in fruit species such as layering, grafting and tissue culture, give information about solutions to problems in vegetative propagation, give information about pruning of fruit trees.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1Students, can explain the basic concepts related to propagation
2Have information about vegetative propagation in fruit production
3Understanding the propagation of nursery trees know
4Knows that biological principles generative and vegetative propagation
5Knows that production of nursery tree and establishment of nursery orchard
Mode of Delivery
Daytime Class
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
General and fundemental principles of propagation and pruning of fruit species
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1Propagation techniques of fruit nursery-trees. Vegetative propagation and it’s properties.
2Propagation by cutting, types of cuttings. Physiology of rooting of cutting
3Using of rooting co-factors, rooting mediums, and structures.
4Propagation by layering, runner and sucker.
5Propagation by tissue culture
6Propagation with grafting. And techniques of grafting
7Factors affecting success in budding and grafting; incompatibility, grafting techniques, plant species, environment conditions, pest and diseases
8Midterm exam
9physiology and anatomy of graft union
10Interrelationships between rootstock and scion
11Pruning of fruit trees
12Root growth and development
13Shoot growth and flower bud formation
14Principle and physiology of pruning
15Techniques of pruning
16Final Exam
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Lecturere's notes 2..Internet 3.National and international congresses articles.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Midterm Examination1100
SUM100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Final Examination1100
SUM100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination122
Individual Study for Mid term Examination12020
Individual Study for Final Examination12020
Homework11515
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)58
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PO
1
PO
2
PO
3
PO
4
PO
5
PO
6
PO
7
LO1   2 3 
LO2  4    
LO3   1   
LO4    4  
LO5 2     
* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High
 
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