Advanced Stress Physiology (BOT 671)

Course Description:
Types of environmental stresses. Effect of stress with emphasis on drought, high temperature, high light intensity and salt on growth, development and metabolism. Mechanisms of physiological and biochemical adaptation to stresses. Improvement of crop growth and production under stresses. Physiology of desert plants and halophytes.
 
Objectives  

• To acquire the advanced knowledge about environmental stresses. 
• To understand the effect of stress with emphasis on drought, high temperature, high light intensity and salt on growth, development and metabolism.
• To know the mechanisms of physiological and biochemical adaptation to stresses.  
• To understand the physiology of desert plants and halophytes.
• To acquire the knowledge about the improvement of crop growth and production under stresses. 

 Required Textbooks:

• Plant Stress Physiology. (2017). Ed. Sergey Shabala 2nd edition, Shabala CABI . 376 Pages /ISBN-13: 978-1780647296 ISBN-10: 1780647298
• Recent Advances in Plant Stress Physiology (2016). Ed.: Praduman yadav, sunil Kumar and Veena Jain. Publisher: Daya Publishing House, India .ISBN 978-93-5130-948-2 (International Edition)
• The Physiology of Plants Under Stress, Abiotic Factors (Physiology of Plants Under Stress 1996 (Vol. 1). Ed. Nilsen, E.T. And Orcutt, D.M. Wiley. ISBN: 0471031526 
• The Physiology of Plants Under Stress : Soil and Biotic Factors. (2000).  Ed. Orcutt, D.M and Nilsen, E.T. Wiley. ISBN: 0471170089