Plant Physiology

Catalog description

This course covers general principles of plant physiology relating plant structure to function and introduce basic physiological processes underlying plant growth and development and plant responses to the environment. Course topics include plant cell structure, plant water relations, plant mineral nutrition, metabolism, photosynthesis, plant respiration, signal transduction, plant growth regulators, photomorphogenesis, plant development, reproduction, senescence, and stress physiology. Course format consists of lectures and laboratory session. The laboratory session is designed to accompany lectures in plant physiology. The laboratories' core objective is to help students visualize main basic concepts and common techniques in plant physiology by running basic experiments, analyze data, and present results. It is strongly encouraged that students have a background knowledge of plant biology and chemistry for success in this class.