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
TBT-23-108	BİTKİLERDE STRES TOLERANSININ MOLEKÜLER BİYOLOJİSİ VE FİZYOLOJİSİ	Elective	1	2	6

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The aim of this lecture is to give information to graduate students about main stress concepts in plants, abiotic stresses as a major limiting factor in agriculture, physiology and biochemistry of plant responses to abiotic stress conditions and molecular mechanisms developed by plants to cope with different stress conditions.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Barış EREN

Learning Outcomes

1	Being able to share information about abiotic stress in plants by oral or written language.
2	To learn abiotic stress factors
3	To learn the importance of metabolic engineering and functional genomics in stress tolerance
4	To understand antioxidative defence system
5	To learn stress factors perception by plants and its molecular mechanism

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

non

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

The goal of this course MSc and PhD students in plant physiology and molecular mechanism based on the ability of the solution to problems with the basic concepts of stress in plants in their work to gain.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction to abiotic stresses
2	Water stress
3	Salt stress
4	High temperature stress
5	Freezing stress
6	Nutrient stress
7	Heavy metal stress
8	Photooxidative stress
9	Metabolic engineering for stress tolerance (A)
10	Metabolic engineering for stress tolerance (B)
11	Functional genomics of stress tolerance (A)
12	Functional genomics of stress tolerance (B)
13	The discussion of current papers-1
14	The discussion of current papers-2

Recommended or Required Reading

Madhava Rao, K.V., Raghavendra A.S., Janardhan Reddy K., 2006. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Stress Tolerance in Plants. Springer. ISBN-10 1-4020-4225-6 (e-book).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Oral Examination	1	100
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Oral Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		50
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		50
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Quiz	14	3	42
Attending Lectures	14	3	42
Discussion	14	5	70
Oral Examination	10	3	30
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			184

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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