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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#C00000'>This course is required for Plant Sciences majors and can fill an elective for Sustainable Plant Systems majors. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#C00000'>Pre-requisites should be completed including: </span><span class=pseditboxdisponly1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#C00000'>MCB 181, MCB 182, CHEM 151, CHEM 152, CHEM 241A, CHEM 243A. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span class=pseditboxdisponly1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#C00000'>It is also recommend, but not required, that you have completed PLS 240, PLS 312 or equivalent.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#C00000'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Name and number of the course:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Plant Cell Structure and Function (PLS 359)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Credits:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 3</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Meeting time:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Tuesdays and Thursdays between 11-12:15pm (Shantz 247)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Course description: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Ravishankar Palanivelu, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>School of Plant Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Tucson, Arizona, 85721<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Phone: 520-626-2229<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Fax: 520-621-7186<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Web: <a href="http://www.ag.arizona.edu/research/ravilab"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://www.ag.arizona.edu/research/ravilab</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>