Courses Code: BCH 413
Course Title: PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY
Number of unit : 2 Units
Course Duration: Two hours per week
COURSE DETAILS
Course Coordinator: Dr. AKINLOYE Oluseyi Adeboye
Email: oaakin@yahoo.com
Office Lecturer: Room B307, College of Natural Science, Department of Biochemistry
Other Lecturer :
COURSE SYNOPSIS
Organisation of plant cells, photosynthesis, alkaloids and flavonoids, plant homones. Structure-function relationship of plant hormones. Biosynthesis of carotenoid pigments. Biochemistry of plant development. The plant cell wall – structure, formation and growth. Lignin formation. Free amino acids, pyrimidines, purines and nucleosides in plants. Metabolism of auxins, gibberelins and cytokinins. Synthetic growth regulators and herbicides. (Pre-requisites BCH 201, 202)
