Plant Development

Catalog description

Note that 'consent of instructor' may be the rule rather than the exception, as many graduate students will have attended similar classes at other universities. This course studies the specific plant functions allowing a zygote to develop into an embryo. It further analyzes development of the embryo into a vegetatively growing plant, then a process known as 'floral transition' allowing the plant to "switch" from vegetative to reproductive growth, and finally investigates the formation of floral organs allowing completion of the plant's life cycle