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Bio 322 - Plant Physiology

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CATALOG DESCRIPTION

322 Plant Physiology
Full course for one semester. An analysis of cell biology, biochemistry, metabolism, ecophysiology, and development of plants. Lecture topics include water relations, respiration, photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, mineral nutrition, plant hormones, plant molecular biology, genetic engineering, the role of environmental signals in plant development, and the environmental physiology of Pacific Northwest forests. Lectures will be supplemented with readings in research journals. Laboratory exercises are designed to demonstrate basic research techniques as well as the principles covered in lecture. Students are required to conduct an advanced, independent project. Prerequisites: Biology 101/102; Chemistry 110; Chemistry 210 recommended. Lecture-laboratory.

COURSE STAFF
The course is taught by David Dalton.

WEB LINKS


A direct link to the library's page where you can log on to download e-reserves (.pdf format) of articles for this course. Logging on requires a password
A direct link to the Reed library's electronic holdings for the journal Plant Physiology
A direct link to the professional society for plant physiologists and molecular biologists

Powerful search tool for scientific literature

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A quick visual guide to a fascinating process

Required Textbook: Plant Physiology , 3rd edition by L. Taiz and E. Zeiger.

Recommended but not required: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants

by B. B. Buchanan, W. Gruissem, and R. L. Jones

COURSE SCHEDULE: (Fall 2004)

The lectures are held from 9:00 to 10:20 AM, Tu-Th, in B19

Conference TBA

Date
 Lecture
Conference
see below for reading
Reading
8/31
9/2

ecophysiology:

Pacific NW forests
the physical and biotic environments
stress physiology
 
No conference

Lassoie et al. Coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest. pp 127-161. In: Physiological Ecology of North American Plant Communities. Ed. Chabot and Mooney


Waring, R. H. and J. F. Franklin. 1979. Evergreen coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest. Sci. 204:1380-1386

Taiz and Zeiger: Chapter 25

9/7
9/9 		thermodynamics, ATP
proteins, enzymes
 Peptide signals
 Taiz and Zeiger: Chap. 2   (on the web only)
9/14
9/16 		membranes and cell structure
physical chemistry of water relations
 Aquaporins

 Chap. 1 and 6
Chap. 3
9/21
9/23 		overview of metabolism
respiration - glycolysis, fermentation, and TCA cycle
Respiration
 Chap. 11
9/28
9/30		 respiration - electron transport
mid-term no. 1

Review

 Chap. 11
10/5
10/7		 photosynthesis- light reactions
photosynthesis- dark reactions
 Photosynthesis Chap. 7
Chap. 8
10/12
10/14		 photosynthesis- C3, C4, and CAM
photorespiration, oxygen toxicity
 Photosynthesis

Chap. 8

Chap. 9

10/16
10/14		  FALL BREAK
  
10/26
10/28
lipids and other plant products
secondary plant products,
plant pathogenesis
Secondary compounds Chap. 11
Chap. 13
11/2
11/4		 polysaccharides and cell walls
soil and mineral nutrition
 Plant-omics
 Chap. 15
Chap. 5
11/9
11/11		 nitrogen metabolism
mid-term no. 2
 Review Chap. 12
11/16
11/18		 nitrogen fixation
transpiration
 Nitrogen fixation Chap. 12
Chap. 4

11/23
11/25

transport in the phloem
Turkey day


Phloem
NO CLASS

Chap. 10
11/30
12/2		 Plant growth and development
Plant hormones
 Genetic engineering Chap. 4, 16
Chap. 17-24
12/7 Genetic engineering, biotech   Chap. 21
TBA Final Exam  

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: (Fall 2004)

 

Date
Topic
Reading
Sept 7 Peptide signals Bergey, D. R. , et al. 1996. Polypeptide signaling for plant defensive genes exhibits analogies to defense signaling in animals. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 93: 12053-12058
Sept 14 Aquaporins Chaumont, F. et al. 1998. Characterization of a maize tonoplast aquaporin expressed in zones of cell division and elongation. Plant Physiol. 117: 1143-1152
Sept 21 Respiration Møller, I. M. (2001) Plant mitochondria and oxidative stress. Electron transport, NADPH turnover and metabolism of reactive oxygen species. Ann. Rev. Plant Physiol. Plant Mol. Biol. 52: 561-591
Sept 28

Review for midterm

  
Oct 5 Photosynthesis Calvin, M. 1962. The path of carbon in photosynthesis. Sci. 135:879-889
Oct 12 Photosynthesis Whitney, S. M. and T. J. Andrews. 2001. Plastome-encoded bacterial ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO) supports photosyntheis and growth in tobacco. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA.. 98:14738-14743
Oct 26 Secondary compounds Bais, H.P., et al. 2003. Allelopathy and exotic plant invasion: from molecules and genes to species interactions. Science 301:1377-1380
Nov 2 Plant-omics Harai, M. Y., et al. 2004. Integration of transcriptomics and metabolomics for understanding of global responses to nutritional stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 101:10205-10210
Nov 9 Review for midterm  
Nov 16 Nitrogen fixation Long, S.R. 1996. Rhizobium symbiosis: Nod factors in perspective. Plant Cell 8:1885-1898
Nov 23 Phloem Xoconostle-Cazares, B., et al. 1999. Plant paralog to viral movement protein that potentiates transport of mRNA into the phloem. Science 283:94-98
Nov 30 Genetic enginering Nawrath, C, Y. et al. 1994. Targeting of the polyhydroxybutyrate biosynthetic pathway to the plastids of Arabidopsis thaliana results in high levels of polymer accumulation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91: 12760-12764 Bouvier, F., et al. 2003. Biosynthesis of the food and cosmetic plant pigment bixin (annatto). Science 300:2089-2091

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