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BIOL 3470

Biotechnology of Plants

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2025

Topics

  • Course number Biology 3470 | Biotechnology of Plants
  • and name
  • AI can suggest how to best organize your thoughts
  • Examples, analogies and counterarguments
  • Use at your own risk
  • Writing
  • Script for a presentation
  • As long as it’s based on your own original work and not AI-generated text… AI
  • summarizing AI is bad
  • Feedback on your work
  • This one is for your profs. I haven’t used AI yet for this purpose, but I can see how it
  • might be useful
  • Revision of a text to improve it
  • While being aware that AI doesn’t always “improve” written work
  • Revision of a text to change word count
  • Sometimes a necessary editing step
  • Summarizing and collating ideas is a key part of work life, and AI doesn’t always do
  • a great job
  • Writing a draft of a paper or discussion post
  • It’s too tempting to let it do all the work, including writing the final version
Fall 2021

Topics

  • Biology 3470: Biotechnology of Plants
  • Facts and myths surrounding plant biotechnology, domestication of modern crop
  • plants, photosynthesis and primary assimilation of inorganic nutrients, plant
  • growth regulators, morphogenesis, tissue culture, water relations and transport
  • and plant movements and directional growth

Readings

  • Plant Biotechnology and Genetics : Principles, Techniques, and Applications. Neal C. Stewart, 2nd edition.
  • Biochemistry & molecular biology of plants. Bob B. Buchanan, Wilhelm Gruissem, Russell L. Jones, eds, second edition (2012).
  • Plant biotechnology : current and future applications of genetically modified crops. edited by Nigel G. Halford.
  • Plant development and biotechnology. Edited by Robert N. Trigiano, Dennis J. Gray.
  • Plant biology. Linda E. Graham, James M. Graham, Lee W. Wilcox. (2006).
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