BOT 821 Inorganic Plant Metabolism 3(3,0) Plant, soil, water, and nutrient relations; permeability; uptake and translocation; transpiration; mineral nutrition. Offered fall semester of odd-numbered years only. Preq: BIOSC 601 and 602 or consent of instructor.
BOT 822 Organic Plant Metabolism 3(3,0) Respiration and photosynthesis; synthesis, translocation, storage, transformation, and degradation of organic materials, fats, carbohydrates, proteins, pigments, and nucleic acids. Offered spring semester of even-numbered years only. Preq: BIOSC 601 and 602 and BIOCH 623 or consent of instructor.
BOT 823 Plant Growth and Development 3(3,0) Vegetative and reproductive growth and development from seed to maturity, flowering, fruiting and senescence; natural and synthetic growth regulators; morphogenesis. Offered fall semester of even-numbered years only. Preq: BIOSC 601, 602, and organic chemistry; or consent of instructor.
BOT 824 Mode of Action of Growth Substances 4(3,3) Physiology and biochemistry of both natural and synthetic growth regulators, hormones, growth retardants, herbicides, and other inhibitors; methodology and mechanism of action. Offered spring semester of odd-numbered years only. Preq: BIOSC 601 and 602 and general biochemistry or BOT 822 or consent of instructor.
BOT 831 Advanced Plant Taxonomy 4(3,3) Principles of plant classification; relationships and characteristics of major groups of vascular plants. Students collect and identify spring flora of area. Offered spring semester of odd-numbered years only. Preq: BIOSC 606 or consent of instructor.
BOT 850 Plant Tissue and Cell Culture 3(2,3) Methods and principles of plant tissue and cell culture: cloning, embryogenesis, protoplast fusion, plant regeneration, potential of plant genetic engineering. Offered fall semester of odd-numbered years only. Preq: Introductory plant physiology or consent of instructor.
BOT (HORT) 851 Plant Anatomy 3(2,3) Origin, development, and comparative structures of tissues, systems, and organs of higher plants. Offered spring semester of odd-numbered years only. Preq: BIOSC 652 or consent of instructor.
BOT (HORT) 861 Plant Cell Biology 3(3,0) Structure, development, and activities of plant cells; ultrastructural organization uniquely associated with dynamics of cellular growth and development in plants. Offered fall semester of odd-numbered years only. Preq: BIOSC 601 and 602 or consent of instructor.
BOT (HORT) 921 Plant Physiology Colloquium 1(1,0) Topics from current plant physiology literature provide a forum for criticizing research, conceiving new research ideas, developing research outlines and proposals, and integrating knowledge from various subdisciplines of plant physiology. May be repeated for credit. Preq: BIOSC 401/601 and 402/602 or consent of instructor.