ADVANCED PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
ADVANCED PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
PLANT PRODUCTION 711, Second Semester 2006/2007
Dr. Abbas F. Al-Jamali
I. CHEMICAL & PHYSICAL COMPONENTS OF PLANTS
II. THE PLANT ORGANELLES: CELL WALL, VACUOLES, PLASTIDS & GLYOXISOMES
III. GENETIC ENGINEERING OF PLANTS
IV. PHOTOSYNTHESIS
V. WATER & FOOD TRANSPORT
VI. GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT: PLANT "HORMONES"
VII. STRESS: WATER, TEMPERATURE, SALINITY, LIGHT, OXYGEN, NUTRIENTS, DISEASE
VIII. SENESCENCE & PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH
TEXTBOOK & REFERENCES
1. SELECTED READINGS FROM: Buchanan, Gruissem and Jones. 2002. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants. American Society of Plant Biologists.
2. Annual Review of Plant Biology (formerly Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology).
3. BASIC REFERENCES: Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell (parts related to plants); Salisbury and Ross, Plant Physiology; Taiz and Zeiger, Plant Physiology; Hopkins and Huner, Introduction to Plant Physiology.
4. CURRENT LITERATURE (JOURNAL ARTICLES): Plant Physiology, The Plant Cell, Journal of Plant Physiology, Physiologia Plantarum, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Postharvest Biology and Technology, Hortscience, Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, Science, Nature, Scientific American (including its Arabic translation العلوم ) etc.
EVALUATION (Based on what is accomplished)
A. Quizzes & Midterm Exam 30%
B. Oral presentations of current literature 20%
C. Term paper presentation & Final Exam 50%
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