BOT 340 - Plant Physiology

3 units (fi 6)(FIRST, 3-0-3)

Faculty of Science

This course explores how plants function. Topics include water transport and the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, photosynthesis and carbon resource utilization, nitrogen nutrition and symbioses, photosensing, and responses to environmental stresses such as attack by pests and pathogens. Laboratories introduce both classical and contemporary methods in plant physiology. Prerequisites: BIOL 107; CHEM 101 or CHEM 164 or CHEM 261; and a 200-level Biological Sciences course or PL SC 221. Credit cannot be obtained for both BOT 340 and BOT 540.