BOT 815
Growth and Developmental Physiology in Plants
3
Course Description
Plant growth: Effects of irradiance; light quality; temperature; duration of light on reproductive growth.
Course Outline
Plant growth: Effects of irradiance; light quality; temperature; duration of light on reproductive growth; Seasonal and geographic aspects of photoperiodism; Long-day; and short-day plants as the basic categories; Photoperiodic induction; mechanism of photoperiodism; Rhythmic behaviour of plant processes; Growth and vernalization and apical dominance; Cyclical periodicity abscission and mechanism of abscission; Dynamics of primary vegetative growth; Totipotency; Measures of indices of growth and rates of growth; Alternative ways of plant growth for their products for world market; Hormones in horticulture and agriculture