Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany

Learn to see and appreciate the amazing plants all around you, guided by a renowned Professor of Biology.

• By This Professor
• 01: The Joy of Botany
• 02: Plants Are like People
• 03: Moss Sex and Peat's Engineered Habitat
• 04: Fern Spores and the Vascular Conquest of Land
• 05: Roots and Symbiosis with Non-Plants
• 06: Stems Are More Than Just the In-Between
• 07: The Leaf as a Biochemical Factory
• 08: Photosynthesis Everyone Should Understand
• 09: Days and Years in the Lives of Plants
• 10: Advent of Seeds: Cycads and Ginkgoes
• 11: Why Conifers Are Holiday Plants
• 12: Secrets of Flower Power
• 13: The Coevolution of Who Pollinates Whom
• 14: The Many Forms of Fruit: Tomatoes to Peanuts
• 15: Plant Seeds Get Around
• 16: Water Plants Came from Land
• 17: Why the Tropics Have So Many Plant Species
• 18: The Complexity of Grasses and Grasslands
• 19: Shrublands of Roses and Wine
• 20: The Desert Bonanza of Plant Shapes
• 21: How Temperate Trees Change Color and Grow
• 22: Alpine Cold Makes Plants Do Funny Things
• 23: Bad Plants Aren't So Bad
• 24: Modifying the Genes of Plants