COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OXIDATIVE STRESS IN PLANTS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KIM 6107 OXIDATIVE STRESS IN PLANTS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

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

The scope of this course, reactive oxygen species and antioxidants, acting as signals that trigger the evidence for the defense reactions will be discussed.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Comprehend reactive oxygen species and their general effects to the plants,
2   Realize the source of various abiotic and biotic environmental stress,
3   Understand the oxidative stress mechanism with respect to various abiotic and biotic environmental stresses,
4   Have knowledge of antioxidant systems in plants,
5   Comprehend the basic principles of signal transduction mechanism triggering by oxidative stress.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Reactive Oxygen Species
2 Oxidation of proteins in plants: Mechanisms and Consequences
3 Redox Status of his life Legume-Rhizobia Symbiotic
4 Procurement of protein in chloroplast
5 NADPH Thioredoxin Dependent Plant Molecular Recognition Systems, Catalytic Mechanisms, Structural Imaging and Target Identification
6 Antioxidatve Systems of Plants
7 Mid Term
8 Oxidative Stress and Herbal Treatment
9 Ascorbate Glutathione Cycle and Related Redox Signals
10 Glutathione Mechanism of Photosynthetic Organisms
11 Compared Regulation in the Chloroplast Antioxidant Defense Antioxidant enzymes Ekstraplastidik Regulation of Genes Encoding
12 Redundancy and Their Relationship with thioredoxin and glutathione
13 Development and stress responses of plants
14 Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Supplementary Book(s): Inzé, D., Montagu, M. V., Oxidative Stress in Plants, Taylor Francis Group, GB, 2002.

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 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 25 25
Preparing presentations 1 25 25
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 192

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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