Lecture Topics for BOT 3503

The chapters are from PLANT PHYSIOLOGY by L. Taiz and E. Zeiger, Sinauer Associates Inc, 1998. Links to lecture outlines will be made available prior to each class. Students might find it helpful to bring these notes to class.

LECTURE/DISCUSSION TOPIC CHAPTER
Introduction. Whole plant and organs 1 (3-9)
Tissues and cells 1 (9-34)
Energetics - electrochemical potentials 2 (35-44)
Diffusion and water potential 3 (61-69)
Water balance of plant cells 3 (69-80)
Water movement - roots to stem 4 (81-87)
Water movement - stem-leaves-air 4 (87-101)
Mineral nutrition 5 (103-124)
Solute transport 6 (125-142)
Membrane transport 6 (132-142)
Assimilation of minerals 12 (323-345)
Phloem translocation 10 (251-263)
Phloem translocation 10 (263-285)
Discussion and review for Exam I 1-6, 10, 12
Gene expression and signal transduction 14 (379-393)
Gene expression and signal transduction 14 (393-407)
Cytoskeleton and cell walls 15 (409-443)
Growth and development 16 (450-478)
Growth analysis 16 (446-450)
Growth regulators: auxins 19 (543-589)
Growth regulators: gibberellins 20 (591-619)
Growth regulators: cytokinins 21 (621-650)
Growth regulators: ethylene 22 (651-670)
Growth regulators: abscisic acid 23 (671-690)
Phytochrome 17 (483-516)
Blue light responses 18 (517-541)
Flowering - clocks and photoperiodism 24 (691-724)
Discussion and review for Exam II 14-24
Enzymes - structure 2 (44-49)
Enzymes - catalysis and regulation 2 (49-57)
Photosynthesis: light reactions - structure 7 (155-172)
Photosynthesis: light reactions - mechanism 7 (173-193)
Photosynthesis: carbon - PCR cycle 8 (196-207)
Photosynthesis: carbon - PCO cycle and CCMs 8 (207-218)
Photosynthesis: carbon - sucrose and starch 8 (218-225)
Photosynthesis: physiology and ecology 9 (227-249)
Respiration: glycolysis and fermentation 11 (287-293
Respiration: TCA cycle and ETC 11 (293-305)
Lipid metabolism - structures 11 (312-321)
Stress physiology 25 (725-757)
Plant secondary metabolites and defenses 13 (347-376)

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