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HORT 301 - Plant Physiology

Lectures - Fall, 2009

Week  Date Lec#
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Topic Instructor Reading Assignment
1 Aug 24 (M) 1

Course Outline and Logistics Plant Physiology: A Systems Approach from Seed Germination to Reproduction

Schulz & Hasegawa
  Aug 26 (W) 2

The Plant Cell
PPT
Quiz #1
Quiz #1 Key
Study Questions
Study Questions-Key

Hasegawa

Chap 1

Aug 28 (F) 3

The Plant Cell: Membranes and Wall
PPT

Study Questions
Study Questions-Key

Hasegawa

Taiz & Zeiger - Chap 1
Chap 11 (p 278-288)
Chap 13 (p 316-317)
Chap 15

       
 2 Aug 31 (M) 4

Seed Germination
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Hasegawa

Finkelstein et al. 2008
Finch-Savage &Leubner-Metzger 2008

Hartman et al. 2002
Sun&Gubler 2004

  Sept 2 (W) 5 Seed Germination: Signaling and Gene Regulation, and Phytohormones Hasegawa
Sept 4 (F) 6

Heterotrophic Seedling Development/“Skotomor-phogenesis”
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Schulz Chap 16
Web Topic 16.1
Web Topic 16.2
Web Topic 16.5
Web Essay 16.2
       
 3 Sept 7 (M)   Labor Day No class  

  Sept 9 (W)  7

Vegetative Growth and Development: Photoreceptors
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Schulz  
Sept 11 (F) 8

Phytochrome: The classical photoreceptor
PPT

Schulz Chap 17
Web Topic 17.1
Web Topic 17.2
Web Topic 17.3
Web Topic 17.6
Web Essay 17.1
Web Essay 17.3
       
 4 Sept 14 (M)  9

Phytochrome: Regulation of light responses
PPT
Quiz 2
Quiz 2 Key
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Schulz Chap 17
  Sept 16 (W) 10

Tropisms and Polarity
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Schulz Chap 18
Web Topic 19.8
Web Topic 19.10
Sept 18 (F)

Midterm Exam 1
Midterm Exam 1 - Key

Hasegawa
       
 5 Sept 21 (M) 11

Photosynthesis: Light Reactions
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Gutensohn  p. 125-156
  Sept 23 (W) 12

Photosynthesis: Dark Reactions (Carbon Fixation)
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Gutensohn Chap 8
Sept 25 (F) 13

Photorespiration
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Gutensohn
       
 6 Sept 28 (M) 14

Respiration
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Schulz

pp. 253-277
Web Topic 11.3
Web Topic 11.4
Web Topic 11.7
Web Topic 11.8

Yoshida et al 2001

 

Sept. 30 (W)

15

Primary Metabolism
PPT

Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Schulz
Oct 2 (F) 16

Secondary Metabolites in Plant Development
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Dudareva Chap 13
       
 7 Oct 5 (M) 17 

Plant Nutrition
PPT
Quiz #3
Study Questions
Study Questions Key
Quiz #3 Key

Hasegawa Chap 5, 6 & 12 (p. 116-121)
Web Topic 5.1
Web Topic 5.2
  Oct 7 (W) 18

Nitrogen Fixation
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Schulz P. 278-285
Web Topic 12.1
Web Topic 12.2
Web Topic 12.3
Web Essay 12.2
Web Essay 12.3
Oct 9 (F) 19

Mineral Nutrition: Solute Transport
PPT
Quiz #4
Study Questions
Study Questions Key
Quiz #4 Key

Hasegawa

Chap 6
Web Chap 2
(p. 1-10)
Web Topic 6.3

       
 8 Oct 12 (M)   October Break - No class  
  Oct 14 (W) 20

Physiological Properties of Water
PPT 
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Hasegawa Chap 3Chap 15 (p 364-372)
Oct 16 (F) 21

Water Movement Through Plants
PPT 
Study Questions
Study Questions Key
Quiz #5
Quiz #5 Key

Hasegawa

Chap 4
Chap 18 (p 449-455)
Chap 23 (p 603-609)


       
  9 Oct 19 (M) 22 

Water Movement Through Plants
(continued from 10/16)

Hasegawa

  Oct 21 (W)   Midterm Exam 2  
  Oct 23 (F) 23  

Water Relations and Horticulture
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

PPT

Mickelbart  
       
10 Oct 26 (M) 24

Weed Science and Herbicide Action
PPT

Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Weller
  Oct 28 (W) 25 Sustainable Agriculture and Organic Farming
PPT
Additional Reading Material
Weller
  Oct 30 (F) 26

Sucrose, Starch and Cellulose Biosynthesis
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Schulz
       
11 Nov 2 (M) 27

Phloem Translocation, and Carbon Allocation and Partitioning
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Hasegawa Chap 10
  Nov 4 (W) 28 Plant Molecular Genetics and Genetic Transformation
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key
Hasegawa

Chap 14
Tzfira-Civtovsky-2006
Alonso&Ecker 2006
Page&Grossniklaus 2002

Smith et al. 2010, Chap 9

  Nov 6 (F) 29

Translational Plant Physiology
PPT
Quiz #6
Quiz #6 Key

Schulz

 

       
12 Nov 9 (M) 30

Abiotic and Biotic Stress Physiology/Responses to Pathogens and Herbivores (Biotic Stress)
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Hasegawa

Chap 13 and 26
Ryan et al. 2007
Hammond-Kosack & Jones

  Nov 11 (W) 31

Plant Water Deficit Responses
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Hasegawa

Chap 26 (p. 671-682)
Web Topic 26.1

  Nov 13 (F) 32

Thermotolerance and Cold Acclimation
PPT
Quiz #7
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Hasegawa Chap 26 (p. 682-692)
Web Topic 26.3
Web Topic 26.4

       
13 Nov 16 (M) 33

Flooding and Oxygen Deprivation
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Hasegawa

Chap 11 (p. 256-262)
Chap 26 (p. 698-705)
Bailey-Serres & Voesenek 2008
Bray et al.,
Chap 22

  Nov 18 (W) 34

Salinity
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Hasegawa

Chap 26 (p. 692-698)
Web Topic 26.5
Web Topics 26.6

  Nov 20 (F)   Midterm Exam 3    
       
14 Nov 23(M) 35

Environmental Aspects of Photosynthesis and Photorespiration
PPT

Schulz Chap 8
  Nov 25 (W) Thanksgiving Vacation - no class  
  Nov 27 (F)   Thanksgiving Vacation - no class  
           
15 Nov 30 (M) 36

Flowering
PPT
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Hasegawa

Chap 25
Web Topic 1.2
Web Topic 25.7
Web Essay 25.2

  Dec 2 (W) 37 Flowering and Horticulture Lopez
   Dec 4 (F) 38  

Fertilization and Embryogenesis
Lecture
Study Questions
Study Questions Key

Hasegawa

Chap 16

       
 16 Dec 7 (M) 39 Seed Storage Development and Dormancy Schulz

Chap 23
Web Topic 22.5
Web Topic 23.3
Web Topic 23.5
Web Topic 23.6

  Dec 9 (W) 40 Fruit Ripening Schulz  
  Dec 11 (F) 41 Senescence as a Developmental Program Schulz Chap 22
Web Topic 22.4
           

 

 

Dr. Paul M. Hasegawa
Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Horticulture Building
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010
Hort 324
Phone: 765-494-1315
Email: paul.m.hasegawa.1@purdue.edu

Dr. Burkhard Schulz
Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Horticulture Building
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010
Hort 311
Phone: 496-3635

Email: bschulz@purdue.edu