Sample Syllabus, Plant Physiology
Text: Salisbury and Ross, Plant Physiology

Lecture Outline

Reading
Topic in Salisbury and Ross
1. Introductions--You, Me, and Plants; Plant Cells Ch. 1
2. Plant Cells continued
3. Cell Water--Diffusion and Osmosis Chs. 2-3
4. Plant Water--The SPAC Chs. 4-5
5. Water Trasport II and Stomatal Physiology
6. Solute Absorbtion Ch. 7
7. Mineral Nutrition Ch. 6
8. Mineral Absorbtion by Whole Plants
9. Hour Exam I September 30
10. Phloem--Introduction Ch. 8
11. Phloem Transport
12. Nitrogen Metabolism and Fixation Ch. 14
13. Chloroplast Structure and
Historical Aspects of Photosynthesis Research Ch. 10
14. Oxidation of Water
15. Photosynthetic Electron
Transport and Photophosphorylation
16. Carbon Reduction Ch. 11
17. Hour Exam II November 5
18. Primary Productivity Ch. 12
19. Natural Products -- "Secondary Metabolism" Ch. 15
20. Plant Growth Regulators I Ch. 17
21. Plant Growth Regulators II Ch. 18
22. Tropisms and Development Chs. 19-20
23. Flowering and Photoperiodism Ch. 23
24. Environmental Physiology Ch. 25
25. Abiotic Stress Ch. 26
26. Plants and Phytophages


Final Exam

Paper Due November 27

Laboratory Schedule

Week
begining: Laboratory Title

Sept. 2 Introduction

Sept. 9 Protein Determination

Sept. 16 Water Potential

Sept. 23 Water Trasport and Transpiration in Whole Plants

Sept. 30 Discussion

Oct. 7 Induction of Nitrate Reductase: Light, Nitrate, and Damage

Oct. 21 The Light Reactions of Photosynthesis

Oct. 28 Preparation of intact chloroplasts from peas

Nov. 4 Discussion

Nov. 11 Separation of thylakoid and stromal proteins by SDS gel electrophoresis-

Nov. 18 Environmental stress as measured by Phenolic Leakage from leaves.

Dec. 2 Presentations

Reserve Readings

For Exam I

Brett, C. and Waldron, K. 1990. Physiology and biochemistry of plant cell walls., chapter 2, pp 4-57. (required)

Canny, M. J. 1995. Apoplastic water movement: New Rules for an old space. Ann. Rev. Plant Phys. Mol. Bio. 46: 215-36. (required)

Mansfield, T. A., Hetherington, A. M., and C. J. Atkinson (1990) Current aspects of stomatal physiology. Ann. Rev. Plant. Phys. 41: 55-75. (suggested)

Sperry, J. S. Salienda, N. Z., Pockman, W. T., Cochard, H., Cruziat, P., Davis, S. D., Ewwers, F. W., and Tyree, M. T. 1996. New evidence for large negative xylem pressures and their measurement by the pressure chamber method. Plant Cell Env. 19: 427-436. (suggested)

Satter, R. L., and Moran, N. 1988. Ionic channels in plant cell membranes. Phys. Plant. 72: 816-820. (required)


For Exam II

Ellis, R. J. 1979. The most abundant protein in the world. TIBS. November 1979. (required)

Gutteridge, S. 1990. Limitations of the primary events of CO2 fixation in photosynthetic organisms: the structure and mechanism of rubisco. Biochm. Biophys. Acta. 1015: 1-14. (required)

McAinsh, M. R., Brownlee, C., and A. M. Hetherington. 1990. Abscisic acid-induced elevation of guard cell cytosolic Ca2+ precedes stomatal closure. (required)

Portis, A. R. 1990. Rubisco activase. Biochm. Biophys. Acta. 1015: 15-28. (suggested)


Further readings, especially for Exam II and the final third of the course t.b.a.