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Crop Physiology
Crop Physiology Author TNAU
Index Lecture Lecture Name Page No 1 Introduction - Importance of crop physiology in agriculture. 5-9 2 Role and significance of water - diffusion, imbibition, osmosis and its significance,plasmolysis. 10-20 3 Field capacity, Available soil water and permanent wilting point 21-27 4 Absorption of water – mode of water absorption – active and Passive absorption and factors affecting absorption 28-40 5 Translocation of solutes - phloem and xylem transport. 41-48 6 Transpiration - types - Steward’s theory of mechanism - significance, factors affecting transpiration and guttation - antitranspirants. 49-62 7 Mineral nutrition - introduction - criteria of essentiality of elements - macro, secondary and micronutrients - soil less culture - sand and hydroponics. 63-67 8 Mechanism of uptake - physiological role of nutrients. 68-78 9 Foliar diagnosis - nutritional and physiological disorders - foliar nutrition-fertigation 79-92 10 Photosynthesis - requirements of photosynthesis - light, CO2, pigments and H20. 93-110 11 Photosynthetic pathways - c3, c4 and cam 111-126 12 Respiration - Glycolysis, TCA and Pentose Phosphate Pathway. 127-131 13 Krebs’ cycle / citric acid cycle /tca cycle 132-144 14 Protein and fat synthesis 145-150 15 Photoperiodism - short day, long day and day neutral plants - phytochrome. Role of phytochrome in flowering and regulation of flowering. 151-156 16 Transmission of stimulus - theories of flowering. 157-164
17 Source sink relationship - yield components - harvest index and its importance 165-168 18 Plant growth 169-173 19 Growth analysis 174-179 20 Plant growth regulators 180-194 21 Practical application of plant growth regulators in crop productivity 195-197 22 Environmental stresses 198-211 23 Seed germination 212-215 24 Abscission and senescence 216-219 25 Global warming - physiological effects on crop Productivity 220-229