Botany II - Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK)
Distance Learning Course with study materials, tutor support and final exam included
Academy For Distance Learning
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- Exam(s) / assessment(s) is included in price
- Tutor is available to students
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Botany II Plant Growth and Development Online Course. 100 Hours Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).
Understand the principles and practices of plant physiology. This course is designed for those who need to know plants in-depth: how they grow, which factors promote their development and which factors hinders their growth. This course 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.
Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?
Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).
What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?
- Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
- Start and Finish at any time
- Courses globally and industry relevant
- Practical Component at the end of most lessons.
Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.
This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.
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Description
Lesson Structure:
1 Flower physiology
- Introduction
- The flowering response
- Genes control flowering
- Physiological age
- Minimum leaf number
- Photoperiodism
- Terminology
2 Phytochrome
- Light sensing systems
- Blue light responses
- Red light responses
- Other light responses
- Phytochrome
- Photoreceptor forms: Pr, Pfr
- How molecules change relevance to commercial horticulture
- Controlling light
- Terminology
3 Photoperiodism
- Light
- Measuring light
- What wavelengths do plants need
- Typical photoperiod responses
- Photoperiodic responses in seasonal flowering plants
- Photoperiodic classification of plants: short day plants, long day plants, day neutral plants
- Detection of photoperiod
- Critical photoperiod and flowering
- Research facts
- Other photoperiodic effects
- Terminology
4 Control of flower bud initiation and development
- Stages in flower bud growth
- What can affect flower bud initiation
- Differentiation
- Development
- Anthesis
- Effect of temperature on growth and flowering
- Vernalisation Thermoperiodism
- Research reports or reviews of specific plants
- Terminology
5 Dormancy
- Dormancy in plants
- Abscisic acid and dormancy
- Breaking dormancy
- Dormancy in seeds
- Factors affecting seed dormancy
- Breaking seed dormancy
- Terminology
6 Effects of plant associations and competition
- Introduction
- Competition
- Parasitism
- Coevolution
- Mutualism
- Plant herbivore and pathogen interactions
- Crop spacing and crop yields
- Crop canopy and plant density
- Impact of weeds
- Protected environments
- Greenhouses
- Shadehouses
7 Respiration and post harvest physiology
- Respiration
- Glycolysis
- Aerobic respiration
- Anaerobic respiration
- Bioluminescence and Fluorescence
- Post harvest respiration
- Terminology
8 Post harvest storage, transport, retailing and shelf life
- Effect of growing conditions on post harvest life
- Controlled storage conditions: temperature, atmosphere, humidity
- Normal atmospheric conditions
- Controlled and modified atmospheres
- Effect of oxygen levels Effect of carbon dioxide levels
- Ethylene
- Controlling ethylene levels
- Modified Atmosphere Packaging
- Commodity transport
- Retailing and shelf life
9 Endogenous and synthetic growth regulators
- Nature of plant hormones
- Auxins: IAA, IBA, NAA
- Gibberellins: natural and synthetic
- Cytokinin's: over 130 different types
- Abscisic acid
- Ethylene
- Other hormones': anti auxins, growth inhibitors, growth retardants, defoliants, growth Stimulators, non standard hormones
- Controlled ripening and degreening
- Waxing
10 Risks involved with plant growth manipulation
- Commercial risks
- Human health and safety risks
- Plant pathology risks
- Ecological risks
- Genetic modification
- Benefits
- environmental hazards
- Human hazards
- Terminology
- Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with feedback, any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Who is this course for?
Gardeners, Horticulturalists, Botany and Taxonomy Enthusiasts
Requirements
A pc or laptop with internet connection.
Career path
This course has been endorsed by TQUK. Endorsement of our courses by TQUK sets them apart from other vocational learning programmes and is an achievement to be proud of.
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