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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Name and number of the course: </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Plant Cell Structure and Function (PLS
359)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Credits</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Meeting time (sec 001)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: Tuesdays and Thursdays between 11-12:15pm, Shantz 247</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Course content for online section:
</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">No text book; Excellent materials via D2L, including recordings of every lecture with clear explanations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Course description</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">: 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 in
the future 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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 evolutionary perspective of flowering plant reproduction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Ravishankar Palanivelu, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">School of Plant Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">University of Arizona<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Tucson, AZ 85721<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Phone: 520-626-2229<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Fax: 520-621-7186<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Web:
<a href="http://www.ag.arizona.edu/research/ravilab">http://www.ag.arizona.edu/research/ravilab</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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