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Course code: ROSS10111f11Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: Physiological aspects of horticultural production
Major: Horticulture
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 5
ECTS points: 0
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: Dr Elżbieta Sacała
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: During the course student gets the knowledge on the functioning and regulation of physiological processes in horticultural plants by internal and external (environmental) factors. Student receives information concerning the ways for increasing plants’ tolerance to unfavourable conditions. Student better understandsthe relationships between such basic processes as respiration, photosynthesis, photorespiration mineral nutrition and plant productivity.
Competences: After the course student knows the biochemical and physiological mechanisms involving in plants’ productivity and acclimatisation to environmental conditions. Obtained information will be useful inthe modern horticultural production.
Prerequisites: Plant Physiology
Course content: Basic parameters of plant production, and the effect of environmental conditions on these parameters. Relationships between photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition and plant productivity. Nitrogen and sulphur matabolism. Beneficial elements. Plant hormones and their role in regulation of physiological processes under normal and stress conditions. Practical application of plant growth regulators and biostimulators. Allelopathy and its practical aspects. Transgenic plants – application in horticultural production.
Recommended literature: Praca zbiorowa pod red. J. Kopcewicza i S. Lewaka: Fizjologia roślin. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN Warszawa 2002. Buchanan B., Gruissem W., Jones R.: Biochemistry and molecular biology of plants. American Society of Plant Physiologists, Rockville, Maryland. 2000. Praca zbiorowa pod red. L.S. Jankiewicza: Regulatory wzrostu i rozwoju roślin. Tom 1-2. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN Warszawa 1997. Bajguz A., Tretyn A.: Brassinosteroidy – hormony roślinne. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń 2003. Praca zbiorowa pod red. R.J. Góreckiego i S. Grzesiuka: Fizjologia plonowania roślin. Wydawnictwo UWM, Olsztyn 2002. Starck Z.: Transport i dystrybucja substancji pokarmowych w roślinach. Wydawnictwo SGGW Warszawa 2003. Starck Z.: Plastyczność współdziałania metabolizmu azotu i węgla w niekorzystnych warunkach środowiska. Zeszyty Problemowe Postępów Nauk Rolniczych 496: 85-102, 2004. Wójcik-Wojtkowiak D., Politycka B., Weyman-Kaczmarkowa W.: Allelopatia. Wydawnictwo AR Poznań 1998.
Assessment methods: Written test (minimum 50% of knowlege).
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