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Lecture 3: Plant anatomy and physiology

Lecture 3: Plant anatomy and physiology. by Edgar Moctezuma, Ph.D. Today…. Announcements Plant Anatomy Cells Tissues Organs Plant Physiology Water & sugar transport Plant hormones. Announcements…. Labs start this week – get your lab manual.

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Lecture 3: Plant anatomy and physiology

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  1. Lecture 3: Plant anatomy and physiology by Edgar Moctezuma, Ph.D.

  2. Today… • Announcements • Plant Anatomy • Cells • Tissues • Organs • Plant Physiology • Water & sugar transport • Plant hormones

  3. Announcements… • Labs start this week – get your lab manual. • BSCI 125 students: if you have the following sections: • 1109, 1110 Tues. 3:30-5:30 or, • 1113, 1114 Wed. 12-2 or, • 1115, 1116 Wed. 3-5 or • 1123, 1124 Thurs. 3:30-5:30, and you can switch to an open section (Monday or Wed. 9:00-11:00), please try to do so. Thanks! • Taking care of your plant: • Do not overwater it! Water only when soil is dry to the touch. • Place near a sunny window.

  4. From smallest to largest plants

  5. What is plant anatomy? • ANATOMY: study of the structure of organisms… looking at cells, tissues • (Morphology: Study of form) What is plant physiology? • PHYSIOLOGY: study of the function of cells, tissues, organs of living things; • and the physics/chemistry of these functions…

  6. “Structure correlates to function” Always keep in mind that in plant anatomy, morphology & physiology…

  7. How can water move from the ground all the way to the top of a 100 m tall redwood tree?

  8. Plant Anatomy: Cells • Plant cells are basic building blocks • Can specialize in form and function • By working together, forming tissues, they can support each other and survive • Levels of organization atoms > molecules > cells> tissues> organs> whole plant > pop.

  9. Plant Tissues Types All plant organs (roots, stems, leaves) are composed of the same tissue types. There are three types of tissue: • 1. Dermal – outermost layer • 2. Vascular – conducting tissue, transport • 3. Ground – bulk of inner layers

  10. 1. Dermal tissue • Epidermis is the outermost layer of cells • Like the “skin” of animals • In stems and leaves, epidermis has cuticle, a waxy layer that prevents water loss. • Some have trichomes, hairs. • Root epidermis has root hairs, for water and nutrient absorption

  11. 2. Vascular tissue • Transports water and organic materials (sugars) throughout the plant • Xylem – transports water and dissolved ions from the root to the stem and leaves. • Phloem – carries dissolved sugars • from leaves to rest of the plant

  12. Xylem • Transports water and dissolved minerals • Tracheids: long, thin tube like structures without perforations at the ends • Vessel elements: short, wide tubes perforated at the ends (together form a pipe, called vessel). • Both cells have pits (thin sections) on the walls Tracheids Vessel elements

  13. Xylem cells • Xylem cells are dead! • They are hollow cellsand consist only ofcell wall

  14. Phloem • Cells that transport organic materials (sugars) • Phloem cells are ALIVE! (unlike xylem) • However, they lack nucleus and organelles

  15. Phloem: transports sugars • Phloem composed of cells called sieve tube members (STM) • Companion cells join sieve tube members, are related, and help to load materials into STM • End walls of STM have large pores called sieve plates Companion cells Sieve tube member Sieve plates

  16. 3. Ground tissue • Makes up the bulk of plant organs. • Functions: Metabolism, storage and support. Root Stem Leaf

  17. Plant Organs Organs: tissues that act together to serve a specific function • Roots • Stems • Leaves Dermal Vascular Ground Dermal Vascular Ground Dermal Vascular Ground

  18. Functions of plant organs: • ROOTS: Anchorage, water/nutrient absorption from soil, storage, water/nutrient transport • STEMS: Support, water/nutrient transport • LEAVES: Photosynthesis (food production)

  19. ROOTS • ROOTS “the hidden half” • Functions of roots: • Ancorage • Absorption of water & dissolved minerals • Storage (surplus sugars, starch) • Conduction water/nutrients

  20. Anatomy of a root epidermis cortex vascular

  21. Root Epidermis • Outermost, single layer of cells that: • Protects (from diseases) • Absorbs water and nutrients • ROOT HAIRS: tubular extensions of epidermal cells. • Increase surface area of root, for better water/nutrient absorption

  22. Root Hairs: water and mineral absorption Root hairs increase surface area for better absorption

  23. Root Cortex • Stores starch, sugars and other substances

  24. Root Ground tissue • In roots, ground tissue (a.k.a. cortex) provides support, and often stores sugars and starch (for example: yams, sweet potato, etc.) You’re not a yam, you’re a sweetpotato! Hey! I yam what I yam, man! cortex

  25. Root Cortex: Endodermis • Endodermis: the innermost layer of the cortex

  26. Root cortex: Casparian strip • The Casparian strip is a water-impermeable strip of waxy material found in the endodermis (innermost layer of the cortex). • The Casparian strip helps to control the uptake of minerals into the xylem: they have to go through the cytoplasm of the cell!

  27. STEMS • Above-ground organs (usually) • Support leaves and fruits • Conduct water and sugars throughout plant (xylem and phloem)

  28. Stem anatomy • Dermal, ground and vascular tissues… epidermis cortex pith Vascular bundles

  29. Types of Stems Monocot stem Dicot stem Root

  30. Types of stems • Herbaceous vs. Woody stems

  31. Tissues of stems • Epidermis (Dermal tissue type) • Provides protection • Has cuticle (wax) prevents water loss • Trichomes (hairs) for protection, to release scents, oils, etc.

  32. Stem Vascular tissue • Vascular bundles – composed of both xylem and phloem • Xylem • Conducts water • Support • Phloem • Conducts food • Support Vascular cambium

  33. Vascular cambium • Occurs in woody stems • Vascular cambium located in the middle of the vascular bundle, between xylem and phloem

  34. Vascular tissue: Trees • Vascular tissue is located on the outer layers of the tree. bark wood phloem Vascular cambium xylem

  35. Girdling: cutting around a tree • Damages the phloem and xylem, eventually killing the tree!

  36. Vascular tissue forms rings in trees • Annual rings: xylem formed by the vascular cambium during one growing season • One ring = one year

  37. History of the tree: annual rings Dendrochronology : tree time-keeping 1917 & 1945: Tree Survives two World Wars 1776: Declaration of US independence 1969: Man lands on Moon 1492: Columbus lands in the Americas 1620: Pilgrims land in Plymouth, Mass. 1861: Start of Civil War 1489: Tree is planted by Native American 1971: Birth Year of the IDIOT who cut down this tree!!!

  38. Ground tissue: Cortex & pith • Stores food (e.g. potato) • Site of Photosynthesis (when green) • Support cells cortex pith

  39. LEAVES: • ‘Photosynthetic factories’ of the plant… • Function: Photosynthesis – food production for the whole plant • Blade: Flat expanded area • Petiole: stalk that connects leaf blade to stem, and transports materials BLADE

  40. Leaf Anatomy • Leaf anatomy is correlated to photosynthesis: Carbon dioxide + Water  sugars + oxygen dermal ground vascular dermal

  41. Leaf epidermis • Is transparent – so that sun light can go through. • Waxy cuticle protects against drying out • Lower epidermis: stomata with guard cells – for gas exchange (CO2, H2O in; O2 out)

  42. Leaf epidermis • Trichomes (give fuzzy texture) (“Panda plant”)

  43. Leaf vascular tissue • VEINS vascular tissue of leaves. • Veins are composed of xylem (water transport) phloem (food transport) and bundle sheaths, cells surrounding the xylem/phloem for strength & support

  44. Leaf Mesophyll • Middle of the leaf (meso-phyll) • Composed of photosynthetic ground cells: • Palisade parenchyma (long columns below epidermis; have lots chloroplasts for photosynthesis) Spongy parenchyma (spherical cells) with air spaces around, (for gas exchange)

  45. Plant water transport • How can water move from the ground all the way to the top of a 100 m tall redwood tree?

  46. Water transport in plants: • The same way we drink soda from a straw! • Water’s great cohesive forces (molecules sticking to each other) and adhesive forces (attaching to walls of xylem cells)

  47. Transpiration-cohesion Theoryfor water transport in the xylem • Evaporation of water in the leaves (through stomates) generates the ‘sucking force’ that pulls adjacent water molecules up the leaf surface

  48. Water transport (cont.) • Like a long chain, water molecules pull each other up the column. • The column goes from roots  leaves. • What’s amazing is that the water moves up by using the sun’s evaporative energy… • Plants control transpiration by opening/closing stomata

  49. Sugar translocation • 1. Sugars made in leaf mesophyll cells (source) diffuse to phloem cells in the vascular bundles. • 2. Companion cells load dissolved sugars into the phloem STM using energy (ATP). • 3. Water moves into cells with high sugar concentration. • 4. Osmotic water flow generates a high hydraulic pressure that moves dissolved sugars through the phloem to the rest of the plant (sink).

  50. Pressure flow in phloem • Sugars made in the leaves are loaded into companion cells and into phloem STM. • Water (from xylem) moves in by osmosis, creating pressure flow down the phloem.

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