Botany II Warnborough College

Overview

This Botany II course from Warnborough College is for people that work or wish to work in the horticulture industry, nursery personnel, technicians, and researchers and science students wishing to further their knowledge in plant physiology.

Aims

• Investigate the physiology of growth development and flowering.

• Examine the nature of phytochrome and its effect on flowering in the phytochrome reaction.

• Examine the photoperiodic responses of flowering plants to differing dark and light periods.

• Examine the effect of temperature on the onset of flowering and flower development.

• Understand and describe the causes of dormancy in seeds and plants and describe the methods of breaking dormancy.

• Understand plant associations and competition and their effects on quality and marketable yield.

• Explain the process of respiration in plant cells and its effect on post-harvest storage and transportation of crops.

• Describe physiological processes in post-harvest crops in relation to the storage conditions.

• Investigate the effect on plants of endogenous and synthetic growth regulators.

• Understand risk assessments relevant to plant growth manipulation.