C4 Plants
Course Material
- Introduction of Plant Physiology
- History of photosynthesis
- Nature and units of light
- oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis
- Various pigments and photosynthetic activity
- Photo system-I and II
- Mechanism of photosynthesis
- light absorption, charge separation or oxidation of water
- electron and proton transport through thylakoid protein-pigment complexes
- Photophosphorylation
- C3 Plants
- C4 Plants
- CAM Plants
- Regulation of C3 pathway
- C4 pathway
- CAM pathway
- Respiration
- Synthesis of hexose sugars from reserve carbohydrates
- Mechanism of respiration- Glycolysis
- Differences between cytosolic and chloroplastidic glycolysis
- Oxidative decarboxylation
- Short day and long day plants
- Mid Term Examination
- Translocation of Food
- Pathway of translocation
- source and sink interaction
- materials translocated
- Mechanism of phloem transport
- loading and unloading
- Transpiration in plants, gases exchnage
- Stomatal regulation
- Theories about opening and closing of stomata
- Opening and closing of Stomata in CAM Plants
- Types of Stomates
- factors affecting stomata and transpiration
- Mineral elements
- Assimilation of nitrogen, Nitrogen cycle
- Pathways of assimilation of nitrate and ammonium ions
- Assimilation of sulphur and phosphorus.
- Krebs cycle
- Regulation of glycolysis and Krebs cycle
- Electron transport
- oxidative phosphorylation
- Aerobic and anaerobic respiration
- Pentose phosphate pathway
- Glyoxylate cycle.
- Cyanide resistant respiration
- Chapters 47
- Department Biological Sciences(SCB)
- Teacher
Zoya Batool Naqvi
