Landmarks in Plant Science: key research findings over the last century, SoSe 2021, Maida Romera Branchat, Roda Niebergall

Plants have acquired unique features that they do not share with animals, for example: they are able to produce their own energy through photosynthesis, they propagate through seeds that protect their embryo and allow them to travel through space and time, they flower in response to environmental conditions, they contain particular cells that remain totipotent and show unlimited growth, etc. The aim of this course is that students learn with examples some of the key findings in the history of plant science.