Links to Notes for Individual Classes

Class 1: Introduction; What is Physiology? Classification;

Class 2 What are plants? Generationswechsel; Endosymbiosis

Class 3 Cell organelles, Cell division.

Class 4 Cell organelles,

Class 5 Cell organelles, vacuole, cell wall, cell division.

Class 6 Cell Wall continued

Class 7 Intro to thermodynamics

Class 8 Enzyme kinetics / Traube, Pfeffer, van't Hoff and osmosis

Class 9 Waterpotential, Staverman Equation, and Quiz

Class 10 Waterpotential in plants: measurements, components and magnitude

Class 11 Watertransport in the xylem: structure and driving force

Class 12 Water under Negative Pressures: Fact or Fiction?

Class 13 Xylem Structure, Root Pressure and Maple Syrup

Class 14 Stomata Membrane transport

Class 15 Transmembrane transport

Class 16 Chemiosmotic Coupling

Class 17 Membrane transport continued

Class 18 Quiz and Intro to Roots

Class 19 Mineral Nutrition

Class 20 Intro to Photosynthesis and Quiz

Class 21 Light Reaction

Class 22 z-scheme

Class 23 lateral thylacoid membrane heterogeneity, PQ cycle

Class 24 Intro to dark reaction

Class 25 Dark reaction continues - Carbohydrate chemistry review  

Class 26 Calvin Cycle - Photorespiration

Class 27 C-3 C-4 and CAM

Class 28 Light and Co2 compensation points

Class 29 Phloem Transport - Pressure flow hypothesis

Class30 Phloem Transport - pathway, loading unloading, transgenics

Class31 Thanksgiving Special: Respiration, and Lipids

Class32 Phloem Transport II: Problems, alternative pathways

Class33 Nitrogen Fixation (12/2)

Class34 Growth - Development - Polarity - Cell Wall

Class35 Plant hormones - Auxin; cytokinin (12/7)

Class36 GA / ethylene / ABA / jasmonate ….(12/9)

Class37 Phytochrom - Control of flowering(12/11)

 Class38 Review and discussion (12/15)

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