Abstract: Ecological civilization thought is the fundamental observance and important guarantee for realizing the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. Ecological civilization thought is infiltrated into the curriculum of application-oriented universities, which is an important channel for enhancing students' values of ecological civilization. In this paper, the core elements of ecological civilization thought is explained on the basis of analyzing the necessity by infiltrating ecological civilization thought into the curriculum in application-oriented universities. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry is major taken as an example. The ideological elements of ecological civilization values are fully excavated. The teaching cases of the course which are infiltrated by ecological civilization thought are designed from eight dimensions. Ecological civilization thought education is organically combined with professional knowledge teaching, which will be useful for cultivating students to establish correct ecological civilization values.

Key words: ecological civilization thought, application-oriented universities, curriculum-based ideological and political education, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry