Fall 1996
Instructors: Phillip Barak & Edgar Spalding
Textbook: Mineral Nutrition of Higher Plants, 2nd ed., H. Marschner, Academic Press
Meeting time: Mondays and Fridays, 3:30-4:45, 357 Soil Science Building.
Weeks 1-5:
9/4 Introduction (Phil & Edgar) partial lecture by EPS on root morphology, cell structure,
apoplast, symplast, free space, apparent free space as covered in Marschner,
Chpt. 2. pp.6-12
9/6 Electrochemical potential, active and passive transport across
membranes. The minimum thermodynamics necessary to understand membrane
transport. read handout.
9/9 Ion channels, carriers and pumps, techniques for studying them
9/13 Potassium uptake, the classic experiments
9/16 Potassium uptake, the molecules involved and the genes that encode
them, mutational studies & expression patterns.
9/20 Nitrate uptake, the classic experiments (paper assignments, give list
of suggested topics)
9/23 Nitrate and ammonium uptake, the molecules involved and the genes that
encode them
9/27 Phosphorus, fungal-plant interactions, molecular biology of phosphorus
transporters
9/30 Special transporters in the Rhizobium-plant symbiosis, water relations
and the transport of ions in the xylem, loading and unloading.
10/4 Student presentations and discussions
10/7 Student presentations and discussions
10/9 Student presentations and discussions
Weeks 6-15:
Plant Composition
Research methods of plant culture
Single nutrient or nutrient interaction?
Rhizosphere chemistry and dynamics
Long-distance transport in xylem and phloem
Macronutrients (special problem)
Micronutrients
Genotypic differences in nutrient requirements
Student presentations/projects
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