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Topic 1.1 Model Organisms

Topic 1.2 Plant Identification, Classification, and Evolutionary Thought

Topic 1.3 Flower Anatomy and the Angiosperm Life Cycle

Topic 1.4 The Nuclear Pore and Proteins Involved in Nuclear Import and Export

Topic 1.5 Protein Signals Used to Sort Proteins to Their Destinations

Topic 1.6 SNAREs, Rabs, and Coat Proteins Mediate Vesicle Formation, Fission, and Fusion

Topic 1.7 ER Exit Sites (ERES) and Golgi Bodies Are Interconnected

Topic 1.8 Specialized Vacuoles in Plant Cells

Topic 1.9 Directed Organelle Movement and Cytoplasmic Streaming

Topic 1.10 Microtubule Movement and Microtubule-Mediated Movement in Plants

Topic 2.1 Inheritance Patterns of Plastid Genomes

Topic 2.2 Recombination Mapping and Gene Cloning: Overview

Topic 2.3 Transposon Tagging

Topic 2.4 Microarray Technology

Topic 2.5 Transformation by Agrobacterium

Topic 3.1 Calculating Capillary Rise

Topic 3.2 Calculating Half-Times of Diffusion

Topic 3.3 Alternative Conventions for Components of Water Potential

Topic 3.4 Temperature and Water Potential

Topic 3.5 Can Negative Turgor Pressures Exist in Living Cells?

Topic 3.6 Measuring Water Potential

Topic 3.7 The Matric Potential

Topic 3.8 Wilting and Plasmolysis

Topic 3.9 Understanding Hydraulic Conductivity

Topic 4.1 Irrigation

Topic 4.2 Physical Properties of Soils

Topic 4.3 Calculating Velocities of Water Movement in the Xylem and in Living Cells

Topic 4.4 Leaf Transpiration and Water Vapor Gradients

Topic 5.1 Symptoms of Deficiency in Essential Minerals

Topic 5.2 Observing Roots below the Ground

Topic 6.1 Relating the Membrane Potential to the Distribution of Several Ions across the Membrane: The Goldman Equation

Topic 6.2 Patch Clamp Studies in Plant Cells

Topic 6.3 Chemiosmosis in Action

Topic 6.4 Kinetic Analysis of Multiple Transporter Systems

Topic 6.5 ABC Transporters in Plants

Topic 6.6 Transport Studies with Isolated Vacuoles and Membrane Vesicles

Topic 7.1 Principles of Spectrophotometry

Topic 7.2 The Distribution of Chlorophylls and Other Photosynthetic Pigments

Topic 7.3 Quantum Yield

Topic 7.4 Antagonistic Effects of Light on Cytochrome Oxidation

Topic 7.5 Structures of Two Bacterial Reaction Centers

Topic 7.6 Midpoint Potentials and Redox Reactions

Topic 7.7 Oxygen Evolution

Topic 7.8 Photosystem I

Topic 7.9 ATP Synthase

Topic 7.10 Mode of Action of Some Herbicides

Topic 7.11 Chlorophyll Biosynthesis

Topic 8.1 CO2 Pumps

Topic 8.2 How the Calvin–Benson Cycle was Elucidated

Topic 8.3 Rubisco: A Model Enzyme for Studying Structure and Function

Topic 8.4 Energy Demands for Photosynthesis in Land Plants

Topic 8.5 Rubisco Activase

Topic 8.6 Thioredoxins

Topic 8.7 Operation of the C2 Oxidative Photosynthetic Carbon Cycle

Topic 8.8 Carbon Dioxide: Some Important Physicochemical Properties

Topic 8.9 Three Variations of C4 Metabolism

Topic 8.10 Single-Cell C4 Photosynthesis

Topic 8.11 Chloroplast Phosphate Translocators

Topic 8.12 Photorespiration in CAM Plants

Topic 8.13 Starch Architecture

Topic 9.1 Working with Light

Topic 9.2 Heat Dissipation from Leaves: The Bowen Ratio

Topic 9.3 The Geographic Distributions of C3 and C4 Plants

Topic 9.4 Calculating Important Parameters in Leaf Gas Exchange

Topic 9.5 Prehistoric Changes in Atmospheric CO2

Topic 9.6 Projected Future Increases in Atmospheric CO2

Topic 9.7 Using Carbon Isotopes to Detect Adulteration in Foods

Topic 9.8 Reconstruction of the Expansion of C4 Taxa

Topic 10.1 Blue-light Sensing and Light Gradients

Topic 10.2 Guard Cell Osmoregulation and a Blue Light–Activated Metabolic Switch

Topic 10.3 The Coleoptile Chloroplast

Topic 10.4 Phytochrome–mediated Responses in Stomata

Topic 11.1 Sieve Elements as the Transport Cells between Sources and Sinks

Topic 11.2 An Additional Mechanism for Blocking Wounded Sieve Elements in the Legume Family

Topic 11.3 Sampling Phloem Sap

Topic 11.4 Nitrogen Transport in the Phloem

Topic 11.5 Monitoring Traffic on the Sugar Freeway: Sugar Transport Rates in the Phloem

Topic 11.6 Alternative Models for Translocation by Mass Flow

Topic 11.7 Experiments on Phloem Loading

Topic 11.8 Experiments on Phloem Unloading

Topic 11.9 Allocation in Source Leaves: The Balance between Starch and Sucrose Synthesis

Topic 11.10 Partitioning: The Role of Sucrose-Metabolizing Enzymes in Sinks

Topic 11.11 Possible Mechanisms Linking Sink Demand and Photosynthetic Rate in Starch Storers

Topic 11.12 Proteins and RNAs: Signal Molecules in the Phloem

Topic 12.1 Isolation of Mitochondria

Topic 12.2 The Q Cycle Explains How Complex III Pumps Protons across the Inner Mitochondrial Membrane

Topic 12.3 Multiple Energy Conservation Bypasses in Oxidative Phosphorylation of Plant Mitochondria

Topic 12.4 FoF1-ATP Synthases: The World’s Smallest Rotary Motors

Topic 12.5 Transport Into and Out of Plant Mitochondria

Topic 12.6 The Genetic System in Plant Mitochondria Has Several Special Features

Topic 12.7 Does Respiration Reduce Crop Yields?

Topic 12.8 The Lipid Composition of Membranes Affects the Cell Biology and Physiology of Plants

Topic 12.9 Utilization of Oil Reserves in Cotyledons

Topic 13.1 Development of a Root Nodule

Topic 13.2 Measurement of Nitrogen Fixation

Topic 13.3 The Synthesis of Methionine

Topic 13.4 Oxygenases

Topic 14.1 Terminology for Polysaccharide Chemistry

Topic 14.2 Matrix Components of the Cell Wall

Topic 14.3 The Mechanical Properties of Cell Walls: Studies with Nitella

Topic 16.1 Mougeotia: A Chloroplast with a Twist

Topic 16.2 Phytochrome and High-Irradiance Responses

Topic 16.3 Phytochrome Effects on Ion Fluxes

Topic 17.1 Embryonic Dormancy

Topic 17.2 Rice Embryogenesis

Topic 17.3 Polarity of Fucus Zygotes

Topic 17.4 Azolla Root Development

Topic 18.1 The Evolution of Seeds

Topic 18.2 Seedling Growth Can Be Divided into Two Types: Epigeal and Hypogeal

Topic 18.3 Seeds Exhibit Both Primary and Secondary Dormancy

Topic 18.4 Phase III of Germination Can Be Either a One-Step or a Two-Step Process

Topic 18.5 Thigmotropism, Gravitropism, and Circumnutation are Integrated Signals

Topic 18.6 Roots Exhibit Negative Phototropism

Topic 18.7 Blue Light Causes Cortical Microtubules to Reorient in the Longitudinal Direction

Topic 18.8 Phytochrome and Cryptochromes Contribute to Phototropism

Topic 18.9 Shade Avoidance Is Regulated by Cryptochromes, Auxin, and Brassinosteroids

Topic 18.10 Phytochrome Responses Show Ecotypic Variation

Topic 18.11 Maintenance of Meristem Activity Is Crucial for Seedling Establishment

Topic 19.1 Bifacial, Unifacial, and Equifacial Leaves

Topic 19.2 Mechanical Stress Alters Microtubule Orientation and PIN1 Distribution in the SAM

Topic 19.3 Leaf Serrations Are Coordinated by the Action of a CUC2–Auxin Feedback Loop

Topic 19.4 Advances in Root System Phenotyping

Topic 20.1 Climate Change has Caused Measurable Changes in Flowering Time of Wild Plants

Topic 20.2 Contrasting the Characteristics of Juvenile and Adult Phases of English Ivy (Hedera helix) and Maize (Zea mays)

Topic 20.3 Flowering of Juvenile Meristems Grafted to Adult Plants

Topic 20.4 Competence and Determination are Two Stages in Floral Evocation

Topic 20.5 Characteristics of the Phase-Shifting Response in Circadian Rhythms

Topic 20.6 The Contrasting Effects of Phytochromes A and B on Flowering

Topic 20.7 Support for the Role of Blue-Light Regulation of Circadian Rhythms

Topic 20.8 Genes That Control Flowering Time

Topic 20.9 Regulation of Flowering in Canterbury Bells by Both Photoperiod and Vernalization

Topic 20.10 The Self-Propagating Nature of the Floral Stimulus

Topic 20.11 Examples of Floral Induction by Gibberellins in Plants with Different Environmental Requirements for Flowering

Topic 20.12 Variations of the ABCE Model are Found in Other Species

Topic 21.1 Evolution has Favored Diploidy in Plant Life Cycles

Topic 21.2 Types of Placentation in Fruits

Topic 21.3 Variations in Gametophyte Development

Topic 21.4 The Molecular Mechanism of Cytoplasmic Sterility in Rice

Topic 21.5 Various Types of Apomixis

Topic 21.6 Three Types of Endosperm Development

Topic 21.7 Fruit Types and Examples

Topic 22.1 Abscission and the Dawn of Agriculture

Topic 23.1 Cutin, Waxes, and Suberin

Essay 2.1 Agriculture, Population Growth, and the Challenge of Climate Change

Essay 4.1 Transpiration and Cell Walls

Essay 4.2 A Brief History of the Study of Water Movement in the Xylem

Essay 4.3 The Cohesion–Tension Theory at Work

Essay 4.4 How Water Climbs to the Top of a 112-Meter-tall Tree

Essay 4.5 Cavitation and Refilling

Essay 5.1 Boron Functions in Plants: Looking Beyond the Cell Wall

Essay 5.2 From Meals to Metals and Back

Essay 6.1 Potassium Channels

Essay 6.2 Calmodulin: A Simple but Multifaceted Signal Transducer

Essay 7.1 A Novel View of Chloroplast Structure

Essay 8.1 Modulation of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase in C4 and CAM Plants

Essay 10.1 Guard Cell Photosynthesis

Essay 10.2 Sucrose Metabolism in Guard Cells

Essay 10.3 The Plasticity of Guard Cells

Essay 10.4 The Blue/Green Reversibility of the Blue-light Response of Stomata

Essay 10.5 The Orange Carotenoid Protein

Essay 12.1 Metabolic Flexibility Helps Plants to Survive Stress

Essay 12.2 Metabolic Profiling of Plant Cells

Essay 12.3 Mitochondrial Dynamics: When Form Meets Function

Essay 12.4 Seed Mitochondria and Stress Tolerance

Essay 12.5 Balancing Life and Death: The Role of the Mitochondrion in Programmed Cell Death

Essay 12.6 Respiration by Thermogenic Flowers

Essay 12.7 Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and Plant Respiration

Essay 12.8 Coenzyme Synthesis in Plant Mitochondria

Essay 12.9 In Vivo Measurement of Plant Respiration

Essay 13.1 Elevated CO2 and Nitrogen Photoassimilation

Essay 14.1 Calcium Gradients and Oscillations in the Growing Pollen Tube

Essay 14.2 Microtubules, Microfibrils, and Growth Anisotropy

Essay 14.3 Biophysical Coordination of Water Uptake and Cell Wall Enlargement

Essay 16.1 Awakened by a Flash of Sunlight

Essay 17.1 Division Plane Determination in Plant Cells

Essay 17.2 Plant Meristems: A Historical Overview

Essay 23.1 Unraveling the Function of Secondary Metabolites

Essay 23.2 Early Signaling Events in the Plant Wound Response

Essay 23.3 Jasmonates and Other Fatty Acid–Derived Signaling Pathways in the Plant Defense Response

Essay 23.4 The Systemin Receptor

Essay 23.5 The Plant Volatilome

Essay 23.6 Smelling the Danger and Getting Prepared: Volatile Signals as Priming Agents in the Defense Response

Essay 23.7 Secondary Metabolites and Allelopathy in Plant Invasions: A Case Study of Centaurea maculosa

Essay 24.1 Heterophylly in Aquatic Plants

Essay 24.2 Desiccation Tolerance in Seeds and Plants

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Appendix 1: Energy and Enzymes

Appendix 2: The Analysis of Plant Growth

Appendix 3: Hormone Biosynthetic Pathways

Appendix 4: Secondary Metabolites

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