6769 (v.3) Plant Physiology 212

Area:

Department of Environmental Biology

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

5.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

1754 (v.6) Cell Biology 101 or any previous version
AND
    1756 (v.7) Plant Biology 101 or any previous version
    OR
    303226 (v.2) Horticulture Plant and Soil Resources 101 or any previous version
    OR
    303231 (v.2) Horticultural Plant and Soil Systems 102 or any previous version

Syllabus:

An overview of the physiology of flowering plants, with an emphasis on plant responses to their growing environment. Topics include: mechanisms and constraints on transpiration, plant water relations and water-use efficiency, drought responses, inorganicnutrition and specialised modes of uptake, plant growth analyses, photosynthesis and general plant ecophysiology.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

010900 Biological Sciences (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External