cross cutting issues

 

Department of Botany - Cross Cutting Issues

A. Environment

B. Sc. Part III / Semester V Botany Paper – XI Fundamentals of Plant Physiology and Ecology

Unit 3. Population ecology 

Sub Unit 3.1Concept of Population.

Sub Unit 3.2 Density. Natality and Mortality.

Sub Unit 3.3 Limiting (regulatory) factors of population -Abiotic factors: Nutrients, and moisture .Biotic factors – Competition and density.

Unit 4. Ecosystem 

Sub Unit 4.1Introduction.

Sub Unit 4.2 Types and components of ecosystems.

Sub Unit 4.3 Dynamics of ecosystem-Food chain, Trophiclevels, foodweb, ecological Pyramids, energy flow[Box and Pipe Model].

Sub Unit 4.4 Phases and types of Biogeochemical cycle. Hydrobilogical (water) cycle, Nitrogen cycle, Phosphorus cycle.

B. Professional Ethics

B. Sc. Part III / Semester VI Botany Paper – XIV Microbiology and Plant Pathology

Unit 3. Plant Pathology

Sub-unit 3.1 Classification of plant diseases based on Pathogens, Crops and Symptoms.

Sub-unit 3.2 Transmission of pathogen-Seed borne, Soil borne and Air borne.

Sub-unit 3.3 Prevention and control of plant diseases. Role of quarantine.