UNIT-I: PLANT WATER RELATIONSHIP 1. Water and its property 2. Diffusion, Osmosis, Plasmolysis, Imbibition 3. Water Absorption 4. Plant nutrition and absorption 5. Transpiration and Guttation

UNIT-II: PHOTOSYNTHESIS 7. Photosynthetic Pigments 8. Photosynthesis 9. C3, C4 and CAM Plants

UNIT-III: RESPIRATION 10. Mechanism of Respiration 11. Types of Respiration 12. Glycolysis 13. TCA Cycle

Unit-IV: PLANT GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT 14. Growth 15. Plant Growth Regulators

UNIT-V: SEED PHYSIOLOGY 16. Physiology of Seed Germination 125 17. Seed Dormancy 133

UNIT-VI: STRESS PHYSIOLOGY 18. Abiotic Stresses 19. Water Stress 20. Temperature Stress 21. Salt Stress UNIT-VII: PHOTOPERIODISM 22. Mechanism of Photoperiodism 23. Photoperiodic Classification of Plants

UNIT-VIII: VERNALISATION 24. Mechanism of Vernalisation 25. Application of Vernalisation