BYL705 - PLANT GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLANT GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT | BYL705 | 1st Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| Prequisites | ||||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer Preparing and/or Presenting Reports Demonstration | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Dr. Yasemin Ekmekçi | |||||
| Course objective | Within the scope of this course; gives detail information about the processes by which plants control and execute plant growth and development. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Course content includes features of growth of the plant body and its organs, embryogenesis, initiation and development of plant organs, transition to flowering and control of flowering and senescence and death. Additionally effect of some environmental factors and role of hormones in plant growth and development are briefly dealt with. | |||||
| References | Charles, B.Beck., 2010, An Introduction to Plant Structure and Development Plant Anatomy for the Twenty-First Century, 442pp. Leyser D. and Day S., 2003, Mechanisms in Plant Development Blackwell Publishing, 241pp. Fosket, D.E., 2004, Plant Growth and Development: A Molecular Approacher, 1st Edt. 580pp. Taiz, L. And Zeiger, E., 1998, Plant Physiology, Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers, Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA, 792pp. Buchanan, B.B., Gruissem, W. and Jones, R.L. 2000, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, Courier Companies, Inc., Maryland, USA, 1365pp. Westhoff et al. 1996, Molecular Plant Development: From Gene to Plant by German Edition, translated into English in 1998, published by Oxford University Press. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Fundamental Concept in Plant Growth, Development and Differentiation |
| Week 2 | Analysis of Plant Growth |
| Week 3 | Embryogenesis |
| Week 4 | Control of the Plane of Cell Division and Cell Differentiation, Cell-Cell Interactions in Cell Differentiation |
| Week 5 | Senesence and Programmed Cell Death |
| Week 6 | Meristem, Shoot and Root Development |
| Week 7 | Midterm Exam I |
| Week 8 | Floral Meristems and Floral Organ Development |
| Week 9 | Control of Flowering |
| Week 10 | Effect of Environmental Factors on Plant Growth and Development |
| Week 11 | Role of Hormones in Plant Growth |
| Week 12 | Midterm Exam II |
| Week 13 | Recent Researches |
| Week 14 | Assignment presentation |
| Week 15 | Studing for final exam |
| Week 16 | Final Exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 1 | 20 |
| Presentation | 1 | 10 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 2 | 30 |
| Final exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 4 | 60 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 40 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 12 | 10 | 120 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Total Workload | 31 | 62 | 226 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Based on master qualifications in the field he/she improves and deepens the actual and advanced information with individual thought and/or research in the level of the specialty. | X | ||||
| 2. Comprehends interdisciplinary interaction related with his/her field; performs analysis and synthesis of the new and complex ideas and reaches the original results by using expert knowledge in assessment. | X | ||||
| 3. Evaluates and uses knowledge with systematic approach in his/her field; makes critical analysis, synthesis, and assessment of knowledge and transfer it. | X | ||||
| 4. Develops a new idea, method, design and/or application for innovation in his/her field or performs a known idea, method, design and/or application to a different field. Researches comprehends, designs, adapts and implements an original subject. | X | ||||
| 5. Possesses the high level skills in using research methods in his/her field. | X | ||||
| 6. Publishes at least one article related with his/her field in national or international academic journals. | X | ||||
| 7. Works in environment, which requires solving original and interdisciplinary problems. | X | ||||
| 8. Can develop new ideas and methods related to his/her field using upper level intellectual processes such as innovative and critical thinking, solving problems and enacting. | X | ||||
| 9. Able to make a scientific research at national or international academic groups. | X | ||||
| 10. Contributes to the solution of the social, scientific, cultural and ethical problems in his/her field and supports the improvement of these values. | X | ||||
| 11. Presents the scientific and technologic progresses in his/her field, contributes the processes of being an informed society where he/she lives and supports the development of values. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest