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.)

Latest episodes of the podcast Plant Growth and Development, Winter 2009

• Introduction to Plant Growth and Development
• Cell Division
• Cell Division
• Cell Division/Cell Expansion
• Cell Expansion
• Cell Expansion/Light Regulation
• Light Reguation
• Light Regulation/Hormones
• Hormones
• Hormones
• Hormones
• Shoot Development
• Sorry - no podcast today - there was a technical problem
• Shoot Development
• Root Development
• Root Development
• Transition to Flowering
• Flower Development
• Flower Development
• PLB 112