Plants have literally shaped the Earth and its environment; priming the great oxygenation event several billion years ago which enabled the evolution of all aerobic life. We are dependent on the bountiful plant life around us but it is their capacity to adapt and acclimate to wide conditions that makes studying plants so interesting. This diverse ability in the plant genome enables restoration of toxic or nutrient-poor land as well as use in managed or native systems. Plants also have a wide range of relationships with other organisms, from food or host to symbiont or parasite. Grain/seed production sustains the energy requirements of the growing human population, as well as being one of... -- Course Website
Instructor: Assistant Professor Michael Considine
Prerequisites: BIOL1130 Frontiers in Biology (formerly BIOL1130 Core Concepts in Biology) or BIOL1131 Plant and Animal Biology or SCIE1106 Molecular Biology of the Cell
