Plant Growth and Development, Winter 2009: Recent Episodes

John Harada

This course, taught by UC Davis plant biology professor John Harada, focuses on the mechanisms and control processes that underlie plant growth, development and response to the environment, with primary attention devoted to flowering plants. Topics are selected to emphasize developmental concepts applicable to several aspects of plant growth and development. Material is presented by discussing experiments employing the approaches of morphology, physiology, genetics, and cell and molecular biology that were used to discover the biological information. (The course is targeted to upper division undergraduate students who have taken an introductory biology course and a genetics course. The audience is primarily general biology majors who do not specialize on plants.)

Review Session

Lecture 19 - Other floral regulators, determinate floral meristem

Lecture 18 - Flower, specification of floral organ identity, establishing boundaries

Lecture 17 - Photoperiodism, perception of photoperiod, florigen

Lecture 16 - Genetic control of root apical meristem organization

Lecture 15 - Roots, root apical meristem organization, and intracellular communication in the RAM

Lecture 14 - Genetic regulation of shoot apical meristem organization, phyllotaxy

Lecture 13

Lecture 12 - Shoots, shoot apical meristem organization

Lecture 11 - Ethylene signal transduction pathway

Lecture 10 - Ethylene signal transduction pathway

Lecture 09 - Survey of hormones, hormone action

Lecture 08 - Light signal transduction pathway, what is a hormone

Lecture 07 - Phytochrome, light signal transduction pathway

Lecture 06 - Rate of cell expansion/Light and development, photoreceptors, phytochrome

Lecture 05 - Cell walls, direction and rate of cell expansion

Lecture 04 - Cytokinesis, Altering Cell Division Rates, Cell Walls

Lecture 03 - Mitosis and Cytokinesis

Lecture 02 - Plant growth and the cell cycle

Lecture 01 - Lecture 01 - podcast did not work, so I posted lecture from last year which is similar