1	Course Title:	PLANT NUTRITION AND FERTILIZATION
2	Course Code:	SBYZ204
3	Type of Course:	Compulsory
4	Level of Course:	Short Cycle
5	Year of Study:	1
6	Semester:	2
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	2
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	-
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Öğr. Gör. Dr. YILMAZ DORUK
16	Course Lecturers:	Öğr.Gör.Dr.Yılmaz DORUK
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	yzdoruk@uludag.edu.tr, 02242942374, U.Ü.Teknik Bilimler Meslek Yüksekokulu B Blok-Görükle Kampüsü/Bursa
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	To learn the basic principles of plant nutrition, to get detailed informations on plant nutrients ,their functions on plants , interactions with each others.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development

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Learning Outcomes:

1 Explaining effects of factors to fertilization and finding relationships among them; 2 Identification of symptoms on defienciency and eccess of plant nutrition elements in hort and greenhouse plants, gaining ability on how to get precaution incase of defienciency and excess stıations.; 3 Learning Application forms, timing, and amount of fetilization, and gaining ability on application of fertilization of plants.; 4 Data collection, calculation, and interpretation for preperation of fertilization program; 5 Preperation of specific fertilization program for hort and greenhouse plant;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Introduction The history of plant nutrition. Essential plant nutrients Basic principles on plant nutrient uptakes. Concept of Plant nutrition and fertilization, Classification of fertilizers
2	Compost, urban waste, blood dust, leather dust, powder horns and nails, guano, green manure, green manure crops and cultivation systems
3	Effective factors on organic matter and nitrogen amount in the green manuring. The effect of green manuring on the soil physical, chemical and biological properties. Biological fertilizer, the classification of biological fertilizers,-application methods, biological N fixation and related species of bacteria, mycorrhizal fungi
4	Nitrogen uptake on plant nutrition Its metabolism Its interactions with the other plant nutrients , deficiency, toxicity and their eliminations
5	Phosphorus uptake on plant nutrition Its metabolism Its interactions with the other plant nutrients , deficiency, toxicity and their eliminations
6	Potassium uptake on plant nutrition Its metabolism Its interactions with the other plant nutrients , deficiency, toxicity and their eliminations
7	Sulphur and calcium uptake on plant nutrition Its metabolism Its interactions with the other plant nutrients , deficiency, toxicity and their eliminations
8	Course review and mid-term exam
9	Iron and Magnesium uptake on plant nutrition Its metabolism Its interactions with the other plant nutrients , deficiency, toxicity and their eliminations
10	Copper , Molibdenium ,Boron,Chlore and Zinc uptake on plant nutrition Its metabolism Its interactions with the other plant nutrients , deficiency, toxicity and their eliminations
11	Fertigation and application advantages / disadvantages
12	mid-term exam and basic principle of fertilization program, timing of fertilizatin in hort and greenhose plant
13	Methods of fertilization
14	Methods of fertilization

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	Güneş, A., Alpaslan, M. ve İnal, A. 2004. Bitki Besleme ve Gübreleme. A.Ü. Ziraat Fakültesi yayın No: 1539, Ders Kitabı: 492. Kacar, B. ve Katkat, V. 2006. Bitki Besleme. Nobel Yayın Kacar, B. ve Katkat, V. 1999. Gübreler ve Gübreleme Tekniği. Vipaş A.Ş. Bursa
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	2	50
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	50
Total	3	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		50
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		50
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

Activites	NUMBER	TIME [Hour]	Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical	14	2	28
Practicals/Labs	0	0	0
Self Study and Preparation	14	1	14
Homeworks, Performances	0	0	0
Projects	0	0	0
Field Studies	0	0	0
Midtermexams	2	6	12
Others	0	0	0
Final Exams	1	8	8
Total WorkLoad			62
Total workload/ 30 hr			2,07
ECTS Credit of the Course			2

26	CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS
PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 PQ11 PQ12 PQ13 PQ14 PQ15 PQ16 LO1 0 0 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 1 0 LO2 0 0 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 1 0 LO3 0 0 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 1 0 LO4 0 0 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 1 0 LO5 0 0 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 1 0

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High