Plant Biology
This minor explores plants and their dynamic means of interacting with the environment. The Plant Biology minor has an 18-unit minimum requirement. Three areas of specialization are offered — (i) Anatomy and Morphology, Physiology and Development, (ii) Evolution and Ecology, and (iii) Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics — with a small, strategic course selection per area.
Requirements:
18 units
Choose one course from each of the following four groups (18 units)
- Anatomy and Morphology
- EVE 140 Paleobotany (4 units)
- PLB 105 Developmental Plant Anatomy (4 units)
- PLB 116 Plant Morphology and Evolution (5 units)
- Physiology and Development
- PLB 111 Plant Physiology (3 units)
- PLB 112 Plant Growth and Development (3 units)
- PLB 123 Plant-Virus-Vector Interaction (3 units)
- PLP 130 Fungal Biotechnology and Biochemistry (3 units)
- Evolution and Ecology
- EVE 100 Introduction to Evolution (4 units)
- PLB 102 California Floristics (5 units)
- PLB 108 Systematics and Evolution of Angiosperms (5 units)
- PLB 117 Plant Ecology (4 units)
- PLB 143 Evolution of Crop Plants (4 units)
- Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
- BIT 160 Principles of Plant Biotechnology (3 units)
- PLB 113 Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants (3 units)
- PLB 126 Plant Biochemistry (3 units)
- PLS 152 Plant Genetics (4 units)
- PLS 154 Introduction to Plant Breeding (4 units)
- PLS 171 Principles and Practices of Plant Propagation (4 units)
- PLS 172 Postharvest Physiology and Technology (4 units)
Total = 18 units
Minor Advisor
Joyce Fernandez
jfernandez@ucdavis.edu
