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Understanding Plants - Part I: What a Plant Knows
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- 7 Sequences
- Introductive Level
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Syllabus
- Week 1 - Introduction
Welcome to "What a Plant Knows (and other things you didn't know about plants)". If you have not already, please review the Course Syllabus for general information about this course. - Week 2 - What a Plant Sees?
This week we start a systematic review of a plant's sensory systems by starting with plant responses to light. We will cover an overview of human vision, plant responses to light, Darwin's experiments showing plant responses to light, phototropism, phytochrome... - Week 3 - What a Plant Smells?
This week we continue our systematic review of a plant's sensory systems by exploring responses to volatile chemicals (in other words, what a plant smells). We start with an overview of the plant cell, briefly review human olfaction (smell), and then explore h... - Week 4 - What a Plant Feels?
This week we continue our systematic review of a plant's sensory systems by exploring responses to tactile stimulation (in other words, what a plant feels). We start with an overview of the mechno-sensory system that differentiates between different tactile st... - Week 5 - How a Plant Knows Where it is?
This module we continue our systematic review of a plant's sensory systems by exploring the 6th sense - proprioception. This week we continue our systematic review of a plant's sensory systems by exploring the 6th sense - proprioception. We start with an overv... - Week 6 - What a Plant Remembers?
This week we move beyond survey of a plant's sensory systems, and explore how plants retain, store and recall sensory information. In other words, we ask the questions, What do plants remember? We'll try to define what we mean by "memory" and briefly review di... - Week 7 - The Aware Plant
This is the final week in our journey through a plant's sense of the world. This week's lecture has two separate parts. In the the first part, we continue last week's discussion of a plant's ability to remember to a more theoretical discussion on the definitio...
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Professor Daniel Chamovitz, Ph.D.
Dean, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
Director, Manna Center for Plant Biosciences
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Tel Aviv University (TAU) is Israel's largest institution of higher learning – with over 30,000 students and more than 125 schools and departments in nine faculties. Global in outlook and impact, it is consistently ranked among the world's top 100 universities, as well as the top 20 institutions in terms of scientific citations. A spirit of openness and innovation is evident in all of TAU's teaching and research activities, breaking down barriers between disciplines, and boldly striving to address the twenty-first century's most pressing challenges.
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