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The principles of plant development, including the basic anatomy of higher plants, and how they grow, respond to external stimuli and reproduce. Relationship between these concepts and developments in agriculture and biotechnology.
To introduce the principles of plant growth and development, including the basic anatomy of vascular plants, physiology of acquisition of vital resources (water, minerals and carbon), and how they grow and reproduce. To give an overview of the processes associated with the uptake and transport of water and mineral nutrients in plants, acquisition of carbon, and the responses of plants to external stimuli and adverse growth conditions. To relate the relevance of plant physiology principles to developments in agriculture and biotechnology.
By the end of this course, you should:1. Understand the life cycle of plants, from germination through growth and development, to the induction of flowering and the formation of seeds.2. Be able to discuss the developmental responses of plants to environmental factors such as light, gravity and cold temperatures.3. Have an appreciation of plant growth and development, and how knowledge about these concepts has lead to improved productivity in modern agriculture.4. An understanding of the scientific practice and principles of plant biology.5. The ability to interpret experimental data.6. Basic skills in plant laboratory science.7. The ability to access and utilise the scientific literature on plant biology.Transferable Skills1. Completing tasks in a laboratory. Important in many science-related courses and jobs. We will have lab. instructions on what is required in each lab. session. (Employable, innovative and enterprising)2. Providing required information in a written form of acceptable standard. This is necessary in most science-related courses and jobs. We will provide feedbacks on lab reports and short library researchassignments on selected lab session topics. (Employable, innovative and enterprising)
BIOL111 (=BCHM111) or ENCH281
BIOL252
David Leung
Claudia Meisrimler and Matthew Turnbull
Reijel Gardiner
Campbell, Neil A. , Reece, Jane B; Campbell Biology ; 9th ed. ; Pearson, 2011.
Taiz, Lincoln. , Zeiger, Eduardo; Plant physiology ; 5th ed; Sinauer Associates, 2010.
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It is compulsory to wear a lab coat and safety glasses in the laboratory.To purchase approved safety glasses, lab or coats go to https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/science/shop/The collection point for purchases is inside the southern entry to the Ernest Rutherford Building, Monday to Friday between the hours 8.30 – 10.00 am and 1.30 – 3.00 pm for the first two weeks of the semester.
It is essential that you are aware that plagiarism is considered a very serious offence by the Academic community, the University and the School of Biological Sciences. Plagiarism is defined as taking content from another work or author and presenting it, without attribution, as if it is your own work. Content here includes text (sentences or major parts of sentences), display items (graphs and tables), and overall structure (the detailed sequence of ideas). Plagiarism includes:• re-use of previous assignments (even if each individual sentence has been rephrased to say the same thing in different words, if the overall structure is re-used) • copying of another student’s work (with or without their consent)• the unreferenced use of published material or material from the internet e.g. cutting and pasting of paragraphs or pages into an essay.For most pieces of in-term assessment you will be given information concerning the use of direct and indirect quotes from previously published work. If you are in any doubt about appropriate use of published material, please speak with a member of academic staff. If you are still unsure what plagiarism is, then seek advice.It is a School policy that courses may request you submit work electronically for subsequent analysis of originality using Turnitin. Students agree that by taking courses in BIOL, required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on the Turnitin.com site.
LecturesThere are 2 lectures per week for this course in TERMS 3 and 4. Please check the latest details on CIS.Lecture topicsWhole Plant Physiology (12 lectures by David)Introduction to the coursePlant cells, tissues and organs.Plant cell division and meristems.The structures and functions of the phloem and xylem including discussion on secondary xylemAcquisition of water and mineral resourcesPlant Growth and Development (12 lectures by Claudia)Introduction to signals and signal transduction; hormone biologySeed development, dormancy and germination Seedling responses to light and gravity;phytochrome and blue light responsesThe environmental control of flowering; the ABC model of flower development;fruit developmentSenescence, including fruit ripening, and abscissionIntroduction to biotic interactionsLaboratory WorkInformation on the laboratories and the laboratory schedules for the entire course are provided in thelaboratory manual. You will be provided with a copy of this during week 1 lectures, and are notrequired to pay. You should read the lab manual before coming to the lab classes.* There are 6 labs in total that are run during TERMS 3 and 4 .* There is only one laboratory stream.* Lab class will not run every week.* As two of the laboratory classes that you will conduct require plants to be measured after a 24 htreatment, you will need to come back to the lab for about 1 h on the afternoon of the followingday after the lab. The time when the lab will be opened will be organised during the main labclass, but will be flexible to suit people’s timetables.Lab topics:1. Plant anatomy I3. Plant anatomy II- Dissection of a plant of your choice.3. Osmosis, turgor and plasmolysis.4. Nutrient assimilation, mineral nutrition, metal toxicity.5. Auxin and coleoptile elongation.6. Seed germination.
Domestic fee $900.00
International fee $4,250.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.
For further information see School of Biological Sciences .