COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MECHANISMS OF STRESS TOLERANCE IN PLANTS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KIM 5117 MECHANISMS OF STRESS TOLERANCE IN PLANTS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR LEMAN TARHAN

Offered to

M.Sc. in Biochemistry
Chemistry
Ph.D in Biochemistry

Course Objective

End of this course, students, will learn the development of stress conditions and stress tolerance mechanisms in plants. The effects of tolerance mechanisms to the plant cell structure will discuss in detail.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand in detail the structure and function of the plant cell,
2   Understand stress physiology in plants,
3   Understand water-, heat-, light- and salinity stres responses,
4   Understand oxidative responses of oxygen shortages, injury, heavy metal stress, food scarcity,
5   Learn proteins are synthesized by plants as a specific adaptation to stress conditions.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Plant Cell and Function
2 Stress Physiology
3 Water Stress and Drought Resistance
4 Flooding Stress in Plants
5 Heat stress and Heat Shock
6 Salinity stress: Growth and Development of Plants in Conditions of Salinity, Water Regime and Photosynthesis under Salt Stress
7 Oxygen Deficiency
8 Mid Term
9 Mid Term
10 Food shortages: Phosphorus, Potassium, Sulfur, Calcium, Magnesium, Zinc, Iron, Copper, Manganese, Chlorine
11 Oxidative Stress Conditions
12 Injuries and Abiotic Stress
13 Answers to Specific Stress Conditions
14 Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Edited by K. V. Madhava, A. S. Raghavendra and K. Janardhan Reddy, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Stress Tolerance in Plants 2006.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation
2. Interactive narrative
3. Question-answer technique
4. Home work

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PAR PARTICIPATION
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in presentations, association of concepts with each other, establishing the cause-result relationships and making comments by using the information available for problems and evaluating idea generation are carried out with mid-term and final exams, active participation to the lecture, homework.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

nilgun.candan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 13.30-15.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 2 15 30
Preparing presentations 2 15 30
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 172

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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