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Plant Kingdom:Various Plant Groups –Cryptogams and Phanerogams

# Algae # Bryophytes # Pteridophytes # Gymnosperms

Mycorrhizae: Ectomycorrhizae & Endomycorrhizae # Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizae (VAM) # Ectendomycorrhizae

Phytohormones (Plant Hormones): Auxin # Gibberellins #Cytokinins # Abscisic acid (ABA)
#Ethylene #Vernalin, Florigen, Caulines, Brassinosteroids & Morphactins

• Drug Yielding Plants or Medicinal Plants : List of some medicinally Important Plants & their active ingredients
• Biotechnological Application: # Golden Rice # Plant Based Vaccines
• Secondary Metabolities: Alkaloids, Essential oils

Plant Morphology & Anatomy

• Dicot and Monocot Embryo

• Tyloses

• Mitospores and Meiospores

• Insect pollinated and Wind pollinated flowers

• Notes on Wood anatomy: Sap wood vs Heart wood, Spring wood vs Autumn wood, Hard wood vs Soft wood , Manoxylic vs Pycnoxylic wood, Tension wood vs Compression wood

Economic Botany

• Important Plant Products - Food yielding crops

Plant Taxonomy

• Natural vs Artificial Classification
• Natural vs Phylogenetic Classification

• Bentham and Hooker’s Classification :Key (Summary), Merits and Demerits 

• Engler and Prantl System of Classification

• Bessey’s System of Classification

• Hutchinson’s System of Classification of Angiosperms

Photosynthesis

History of Photosynthesis # An overview of Photosynthesis # Plant Photosynthesis and Bacterial Photosynthesis # Light Reaction and Dark Reaction # Photosystem I and Photosystem II # Cyclic and Non cyclic phosphorylation # C3 and C4 Cycle # Photosynthesis and Chemosynthesis

Plant Pathology

• Citrus Canker

• Resemblances between Rusts and Smuts

• Difference between Rusts and Smuts

Horticulture

• Vegetative Propagation: Advantages and Disadvantages

• Seed Propagation: Advantages and Disadvantages

• Hydroponics and Aeroponics

• Transpiration and Guttation

• Hydathodes or Water Stomata

• Parasexual cycle or Parasexuality

• Allelopathy

• Mitospores and Meiospores

• Insect pollinated and Wind pollinated flowers

# Videos 

Difference between Eusporangiate and Leptosporangiate ferns?

What is the Difference Between Homosporous and Heterosporous Plant Life Cycle?

Types of Stele and its Evolution in Pteridophytes

Different types of Steles found in Lycopodium

The importance of plants in life

Last Updated on :11/5/2014