Plant Physiology and Plant Tissue Culture

By Dr. Monica Jain | Devi Ahilya Viswavidyalaya, Indore

Learners enrolled: 322

Plants are a part of the biosphere. Without plants life, as we know it, would not be able to exist, since all animals are directly or indirectly dependent on plants for the food needed for their survival. Plants also play an important role in maintaining soil fertility, which is an essential component needed for their growth.

Learners will be able to comprehend about the water metabolism, photosynthesis in plants while also being able to explain about their respiration and nitrogen metabolism.

Learners will also be able to distinguish between the effects of various growth hormones on the growth of plants.

In addition, learners will be able to enhance their knowledge about various aspects of plant tissue culture, while also being able to discern about cloning in plants.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	08 Aug 2019
End Date :	31 Oct 2019
Enrollment Ends :	10 Sep 2019
Exam Date :

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Course layout

Weeks Weekly Lecture Topics

Week 1 Lecture 1 - BIO-FERTILIZERS

: Lecture 2 - BIO-PESTICIDES

Lecture 3 - ROOT SYSTEM

Lecture 4 - ANATOMY OF ROOTS IN DICOTS & MONOCOTS

Week 2 : Lecture 5 - SHOOT SYSTEM

Lecture 6 - ANATOMY OF STEM IN DICOTS AND MONOCOTS

Lecture 7 - STOMATA – STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Lecture 8 - STOMATA – MECHANISM OF MOVEMENT

Week 3 : Lecture 9 - MORPHOLOGY OF FLOWER

Lecture 10 - POLLINATION

Lecture 11 - PLANT FERTILIZATION

Lecture 12 - DEVELOPMENT OF ENDOSPERM AND EMBRYO

Week 4 : Lecture 13 - OSMOSIS AND ABSORPTION OF WATER

Lecture 14 - TRANSPIRATION

Lecture 15 - ASCENT OF SAP

Lecture 16 - PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS AND PHOTOSYSTEMS

Week 5 : Lecture 17 - INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Lecture 18 - LIGHT REACTIONS IN PHOTOSYSNTHESIS

Lecture 19 - DARK REACTIONS IN PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Lecture 20 - FACTORS AFFECTING PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND MEASUREMENT

Week 6 : Lecture 21 - BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN FIXATION

Lecture 22 - REGULATION OF NITROGEN FIXATION

Lecture 23 - NITRATE REDUCTION AND AMMONIA ASSIMILATION

Lecture 24 - AUXINS

Week 7 : Lecture 25 - CYTOKININS

Lecture 26 - GIBBERELLINS

Lecture 27 - ETHYLENE

Lecture 28 - ABSCISIC ACID

Week 8 : Lecture 29 - PHOTOPERIODISM AND VERNALIZATION

Lecture 30 - PHYTOCHROME

Lecture 31 - PLANT MOVEMENT

Lecture 32 - TOTIPOTENCY AND CYTODIFFERENTIATION

Week 9 : Lecture 33- GROWTH MEDIA CONTENTS, PREPARATION & STERILIZATION

Lecture 34 - CELL CULTURE TYPES

Lecture 35 - PLANT REGENERATION THROUGH ORGANOGENESIS

Week 10 : Lecture 36 - SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS

Lecture 37- SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS AND SYNTHETIC SEEDS

Lecture 38– PROTOPLAST ISOLATION AND CULTURE

Lecture 39– SOMATIC HYBRIDIZATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Week 11 : Lecture 40 - APPLICATION OF TISSUE CULTURE IN AGRICULTURE

Lecture 41 - APPLICATION OF TISSUE CULTURE IN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY

Lecture 42 - CLONAL PROPAGATION & MICROPROPAGATION

Lecture 43 - PRODUCTION OF HAPLOID PLANTS

Week 12 : Lecture 44 - PLANT TRANSFORMATION, PART-1

Lecture 45 - PLANT TRANSFORMATION, PART-2

Lecture 46 - SELECTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE TRANSFORMED PLANTS

Books and references

• Abobkar I.M. Saad and Ahmed M. Elshahed (2012): “Plant Tissue Culture Media, Recent Advances in Plant in vitro Culture”, Dr. Annarita Leva (Ed.), InTech, DOI: 10.5772/50569.

• B. D. Singh: “Biotechnology”, Kalyani Publishers.

• B.P. Pandey: “Plant Anatomy”, S. Chand and Company Ltd., India

• Bhojwani, S.S. &Razdan, M.K. (1996): “Plant Tissue Culture: Theory & Practice”, Elsevier.

• Brown T.A. (2006) : “GeneCloning and DNA Analysis: An Introduction”, 6th Edition, Wiley-Blackwell Scientific, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichster, West Sussex, UK.

• David L. Nelson and Michael M. CoxLehninger: “Principles of Biochemistry”,Sixth Edition, W.H. Freeman and Company.

• Edwin F. George, Michael A Hall and Geert-Jan De Klerk (2007): “The Components of Plant Tissue Culture Media I: Macro- and Micro-Nutrients”, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5005-3_3.

• P.K. Gupta: “Biotechnology”, Rastogi Publications.

• S. B. Agrawal and M. Agrawal (Ed): “Environmental Pollution and Plant Responses”, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, USA, 2000

• S.S Bhojwani and S. P Bhatnagar: “The Embryology of Angiosperms”, Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd, India.

• Schreiber, Lukas (2010): “Transport Barriers Made of Cutin, Suberin and Associated Waxes”, in Trends in Plant Science, Volume 15, Issue 10, 546 – 553.

• V. Venkateswarlu: “Cytology, Histology and Anatomy of Angiosperms”, S. Chand and Company Ltd., India.

• Varalakshmi D, Lakshmi N and Guruprasad K. N.: “Physiological changes in soybean cv JS – 71-05 after the exclusion of UV – A and UV – B from solar radiation”, in Indian. J. Plant Physiology, 602 – 606, 2003.

Instructor bio

Dr. Monica Jain has been working as a Professor and Head, Dept. of Life Sciences at Maharaja Ranjit Singh College of Professional Sciences, Indore (MP). She holds seventeen years of under-graduate and fifteen years of post-graduate teaching experience of Life Science courses. Her area of specialization is in Plant Biotechnology, which involves research on Mutagenesis and production of novel traits", In vitro regeneration" and Enhancement of secondary metabolites in plant cell suspension cultures. Dr. Jain has various research publications as research papers in peer reviewed international journals, as posters and oral paper presentations in national and international level conferences.