Plant Science - An Introduction to Botany

Professor Biography Table of Contents Course Scope Lecture 1—The Joy of Botany Lecture 2—Plants Are like People Lecture 3—Moss Sex and Peat’s Engineered Habitat Lecture 4—Fern Spores and the Vascular Conquest of Land Lecture 5—Roots and Symbiosis with Non-Plants Lecture 6—Stems Are More Than Just the In-Between Lecture 7—The Leaf as a Biochemical Factory Lecture 8—Photosynthesis Everyone Should Understand Lecture 9—Days and Years in the Lives of Plants Lecture 10—Advent of Seeds: Cycads and Ginkgoes Lecture 11—Why Conifers Are Holiday Plants Lecture 12—Secrets of Flower Power Lecture 13—The Coevolution of Who Pollinates Whom Lecture 14—The Many Forms of Fruit: Tomatoes to Peanuts Lecture 15—Plant Seeds Get Around Lecture 16—Water Plants Came from Land Lecture 17—Why the Tropics Have So Many Plant Species Lecture 18—The Complexity of Grasses and Grasslands Lecture 19—Shrublands of Roses and Wine Lecture 20—The Desert Bonanza of Plant Shapes Lecture 21—How Temperate Trees Change Color and Grow Lecture 22—Alpine Cold Makes Plants Do Funny Things Lecture 23—Bad Plants Aren’t So Bad Lecture 24—Modifying the Genes of Plants Bibliography Image Credits