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Dr. Manzer Hussain Siddiqui

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Department of Botany & Microbiology College of Science King Saud University P.O. Box : 2455  Riyadh- 11451, KSA, Email:-mhsiddiqui@KSU.EDU.SA

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mhsiddiqui@KSU.EDU.SA
مادة دراسية

BOT 674  -    Seed Physiology

BOT 674  -    Seed Physiology

Instructor:      Dr. Manzer H. Siddiqui

                        Email: mhsiddiqui@ksu.edu.sa

                        Office: AB13

Course Syllabus: 

Types of seeds, fruit and seed development, physical and composition of seeds, factors affecting seed development and germination, domancy, inhibition and stimulation of seed germination, metabolism of germinating seeds, effect of inhibitors and stimutants on their metabolism.

What is about course?

The present course improves the knowledge of students in the field of seed physiology.  Students will (1) understand about the seeds, types of seed and reproductive biology, (2)understand about the chemical composition, main physicochemical properties, and nutritional value of seeds, (3) understand the process of fruits and seed development (4) understand key-points of physiological and biochemical mechanisms involved in seed germination, (5) understand key-points of seed vigor, dormancy, inhibition and stimulation of seed germination and (6) perform scientific literature using refereed journal sources and know the advance development in the field seed physiology.

Lecture Topics:

  • Introduction reproductive biology and types of seeds

  • Introduction seed and fruit morphology

  • The process of fruits and seed development

  • Chemical composition, main physicochemical properties, and nutritional value of seeds

  • Physiological and biochemical mechanisms involved in seed germination

  • Factors affecting seed development and germination

  • Viability, dormancy, inhibition and stimulation of seed germination

  • Effect of seed inhibitors and stimulants on germination

 

Textbooks:

  • Seeds: Physiology of Development, Germination and Dormancy, Bewley, J.D., Bradford, K., Hilhorst, H., Nonogaki, H. Springer

  • Seed development and germination. 1995. Edited by J. Kiegel & G. Galili. Marcel Dekker, Inc.

 

Essential References

  • Embryogenesis: Esau, K. 1977. Anatomy of Seed Plants, 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons.

  • Taiz, L & Zeiger, E 2015, Plant Physiology, 6th edn, Sinauer Associates Inc, Massachusetts.

 

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