[Plsugs] Consider adding PLS359 to your Fall Schedule

[Tanya Quist]

This course is required for Plant Sciences majors and can fill an elective
for Sustainable Plant Systems majors. 

Pre-requisites should be completed including: MCB 181, MCB 182, CHEM 151,
CHEM 152, CHEM 241A, CHEM 243A. 

It is also recommend, but not required, that you have completed PLS 240, PLS
312 or equivalent.

 

Name and number of the course: Plant Cell Structure and Function (PLS 359)

 

Credits: 3

 

Meeting time: Tuesdays and Thursdays between 11-12:15pm (Shantz 247)

 

Course description: 

 

Whether the student will work with plants as a physiologist, pathologist,
ecologist, agronomist, horticulturalist, or molecular biologist, it is
important to know how a plant is constructed, how it grows, and how it
responds to an ever changing environment. Depending on the need and
interests, the student may work at the subcellular, cellular, tissue, organ,
or whole plant level. As a result, it is important to have a comprehensive
understanding of plant cell structure and function.

 

In this course, I will start with the molecular and subcellular organization
of a single plant cell. Subsequently, I will discuss organization and
function of plants at the tissue level. Emphasis will be placed on not only
teaching the structural aspects but also discussing the functions of a plant
cell, tissue, and organ.

 

My lectures will connect the utility of learning these fundamental
principles to student's interests in industry, plant molecular genetics,
plant pathology, Agronomy, and evolutionary biology. For instance, they will
learn about the importance of understanding how plants grow before they can:
make an impact in biofuel industry, molecular mechanisms that underlie
meristem and root hair development, understand fungal and pathogen
interaction with plants, improve cotton fiber quality and yield, and gain an
evolution of flowering plant reproduction.

 

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Ravishankar Palanivelu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

School of Plant Sciences

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona, 85721

Phone: 520-626-2229

Fax: 520-621-7186

Web:  <http://www.ag.arizona.edu/research/ravilab>
http://www.ag.arizona.edu/research/ravilab

 

 

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