CBT 620 Developmental Plant Biology

Growth and development: growth, differentiation and development in plants, degree of determination, factors affecting vegetative and reproductive growth; Plant photomorphogenesis: Action spectrum and role of phytochrome in plant morphogenesis; Molecular and photobiological characteristics of phytochrome; Mode of action of phytochrome in photomorphogenesis; Physiology of aging and senescence: physiology of leaf and flower aging, factors affecting aging and senescence, measurement and significance of abscission of reproductive structures in plants; Physiology of flowering : Flower induction and morphogenesis, factors modifying photo induction, nature and mechanism of thermoperiodism in plants.