Tag Archives: contents

How do plants reproduce?

Secondary Compounds: What kinds of molecules do plants make to defend themselves?
Defense Overview: What are the kinds of defense pathways in plants?
Defense Signaling: How does a plant match its response with a specific attacker?

A Brief Overview of Light: What is light, and how does it interact with matter?
Overview of Photosynthesis: What does photosynthesis accomplish?
Photosynthesis — Light Reactions: How does the plant use light to make short-term chemical energy?
Photosynthesis — Carbon Reactions: How is the short-term energy converted into long-term storage forms of energy?
A Map of the Calvin Cycle: What is a metabolic cycle, and how does it work?
Photorespiration: What happens when the carbon dioxide gets low?
Overcoming Photorespiration: How have some plants adapted to hot, dry conditions?
Sucrose and Starch Biosynthesis: How are simple sugars transported around the plant or stored?
Guard Cell Regulation: How does the plant control gas exchange?

Gravity sensing: How does a plant convert an acceleration force into cellular information?
Auxin Transport: How is the distribution of this hormone targeted to individual cells?
Gravity signaling: What is the chain of events that leads to gravitropic curvature?
Phototropism: How does a light gradient cause differential growth?
Photomorphogenesis: What is light-induced development, and how is it regulated?
Touch Sensing: How does a plant detect an object and grow around it?

Seed Structure: What are the parts of a seed, and how are they organized to protect and nourish the embryonic plant?
Dormancy & Germination: What is dormancy, and how is it regulated?
Hormone perception: What role do hormones play in regulating dormancy?
Phytochrome: What role does light play in regulating germination?

Growth

Principles of Growth: How do plants create a complex body plan?
Meristems: How do these specialized regions of cell division make a plant?
Cell fate determination: Do cells inherit their identity, or is it the product of position?
Cell walls: What role do cell walls play in growth and development?
Cell expansion: What controls the timing and direction of cell expansion?
Water potential: How does water provide the driving force for cell growth?
Organ formation: How does a jumble of cells become organized for a specific function?