Course Crop Growth and Differentiation
Course level Undergraduate or MS program
Lecturers CH Kao and MC Chang
Text Handout
Lectures Monday 9:10 – 10:00 am
Wednesday 3:30 – 5:20 pm
212 Agronomy
Content:
1. Introduction
2. Energy metabolism
3. Chemistry of plant hormones
4. Plant hormones and cell growth
5. Apical dominance
6. Tropisms
7. Leaf epinasty and leaf unrolling
8. Abscission
9. Cell division
10. Cell differentiation
11. Plant hormones and orientation of cell growth (cytoskeleton)
12. Root physiology (root growth and aerenchyma formation)
13. Leaf physiology (chloroplast differentiation, chlorophyll
Biosynthesis, regulation of RuBPcase and stomatal movement)
14. Hormonal regulation of -amylase
15. Phytochrome and plant development
16. Senescence physiology (leaf senescence, flower senescence,
And fruit senescence)
Examinations Two examinations, each totaling 50% of the final grade.