BIO 345

• Course Description:

  This course is aimed to provide students with comprehensive exposure to the plant-water and soil relationships; the laboratory exercises provide hands-on experiences with experiments and training in instrumental skills.

   

• Course Main Objective:

  The student will achieve competency concerning the following aspects of the plant-soil relationship:

1. Plant soils and water relations.
2.  Soil components of mineral nutrition.
3.  Soil texture and structure and soil profile.

    

• Learning Resources

1. Plant-water Relationships, Hardcover, 1967 by R. O. Slatyer.
2. Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations, 2nd Edition, 2014 by M.B. Kirkham
3. Introduction to Plant Physiology, 2008 by William G. Hopkins and Norman P. A. Hüner -Plant Physiology and Development, Sixth Edition, 2014 by Lincoln Taiz and Eduardo Zeiger - Plant and soil water relationships: a modern synthesis, 1969 by Kramer, P. J.
4. F.Tardieu, N. Katerji O. Bethenod J. Zhang W. J. Davies, (1991), Maize stomatal conductance in the field: its relationship with soil and plant water potentials, mechanical constraints and ABA concentration in the xylem sap.
5. Computer-based programs/CD, professional standards or regulations and software.
6. Multimedia associated with the textbook and websites on the internet that are relevant to the topics of the course