| Week |
Theoretical |
Practical |
| 1 |
General information about plant cells and the cell structures, structures of cell organels and their functions in cell. |
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| 2 |
Structure and quantities of water, events that took place in the transport of water. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 6 |
Transpiration determination methods, reduction methods of transpiration and losing water in liquid form. |
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| 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. |
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| 8 |
General evaluation of the course and Midterm exam. |
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| 9 |
Absorpsion of nutrients by rooths, basic principles of nutrient absorpsion, the effectiveness of mycorrhiza fungus in absorption of nutrients. |
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| 10 |
Transport of nutrients in cell membranes radial transport of nutrients to xylem and looding to xylem, taking nutrients by plant leaves. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 13 |
Transport of the products of photosyntesis phloem transport mechanisms, the distribution of photosyntetic products in plants. |
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| 14 |
Respiration in plants and its significance, comparison of respiration and photosyntesis, factors that affect respiration. |
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| 23 |
Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials: |
Kacar, B., Katkat, A.V. ve Öztürk, Ş. 2010. BitkiFizyolojisi. Nobel Yayın No: 848, 4. Baskı, s.556, Ankara.
Salisbury, F.B. and C.W. Ross (1992). Plant Physiology. 4th ed. pp. 1-682. Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, California, U.S.A.
Taiz, L. and E. Zeiger (1998). Plant Physiology. 2nd ed. pp. 1-792. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publishers, Sunderland, Massachusetts, U.S.A
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