BIOLOGY 3B03
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Winter 2025 · L01
Topics
- Introduction / Water Movement
- Measuring water status
- Soil properties and water movement
- Root structure and water uptake
- Water movement to leaves/ Transpiration
- Mineral nutrition I
- Mineral Nutrition II
- Nitrogen assimilation
- Sulfur, Phosphorus & Iron assimilation
- Environmental stress
- Class cancelled
- Photosynthesis: light reactions
- Photosynthesis: carbon assimilation and
- Photorespiration and CO2 concentrating mechanisms
- Photosynthesis: Ecological considerations & measurements
- Carbohydrates and Translocation
- Translocation/phyllotaxy
- Assimilate partitioning/Sink development
- Senescence
- Senescence/Stress responses
- Post-harvest Physiology/Growth regulators
- Last Class: Review session
Readings
- Fundamentals of Plant PhysiologyOxford University Press · ISBN 9780197614167
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Course outline / syllabus ↗Winter 2025
- Some readings or course materials are supplied through Avenue to Learn; public bibliographic details may be incomplete.