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Spring. 3 credits. Prerequisite: BIOPL 341 or equivalent. Offered alternate years.
Offered spring 2007. Lecs, M W F 10:10-11.
O.K. Vatamaniuk, L.V. Kochian, R.M. Welch.
A detailed study of the processes by which plants acquire and utilize mineral nutrients from
the soil. Topics will include the uptake, translocation and compartmentation of mineral elements;
root-soil interactions; metabolism of mineral elements; the involvement of mineral nutrients
in various physiological processes; and nutrition of plants adapted to extreme environmental
stresses (e.g. acid soils). Specific mineral elements will be emphasized to illustrate the above
topics.