Courses offered in Plant Biology
This is a general overview of the courses offered by Plant Biology (BioPL). For an updated list of courses offered on this particular year, check the Courses of Study Catalog and the Course and Time Roster.
In these lists, course numbers are linked to Cornell's Course Descriptions.
Core Courses
| Course | Description |
| BioPl1120 | Issues in Social Biology: from Diet to Diseases, DNA to Deforestation |
| BioPl1250 | Biology Seminar |
| BioPl2210 | Natural Remedies in Ethnohealth |
| BioPl2400 | Green World/Blue Planet |
| BioPl2410 | Introductory Botany |
| BioPl2420 | Plant Function and Growth Lectures |
| BioPl2421 | Plant Function and Growth, Laboratory |
| BioPl2430 | Taxonomy of Cultivated Plants (also HORT2430) |
| BioPl2450 | Plant Biology |
| BioPl2470 | Ethnobiology |
| BioPl2480 | Taxonomy of Vascular Plants |
| BioPl3420 | Plant Physiology, Lectures |
| BioPl3421 | Plant Physiology, Laboratory |
| BioPl3430 | Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering of Plants |
| BioPl3431 | Laboratory in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering of Plants |
| BioPl3450 | Plant Anatomy |
| BioPl3480 | The Healing Forest |
| BioPl3590 | Biology of Grasses |
| BioPl3800 | Strategies and Methods in Drug Discovery |
| BioPl4010 | Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy |
| BioPl4030 | Transmission Electron Microscopy for Biologists |
| BioPl4040 | Crop Evolution, Domestication and Diversity (also PLBR/IARD4040) |
| BioPl4220 | Plant Development |
| BioPl4400 | Phylogenetic Systematics (also ENTOM440) |
| BioPl4420 | Current Topics in Ethnobiology |
| BioPl4430 | Topics and Research Methods in Systematics |
| BioPl4440 | Plant Cell Biology |
| BioPl4470 | Molecular Systematics |
| BioPl4480 | Plant Evolution and the Fossil Record |
| BioPl4490 | Green Signals and Triggers—The Plant Hormones (also HORT4490) |
| BioPl4500 | Light and Video Microscopy for Biologists |
| BioPl4520 | Systematics of Tropical Plants |
| BioPl4521 | Systematics of Tropical Plants: Field Laboratory |
| BioPl4530 | Principles and Practice of Historical Biogeography (also ENTOM4530) |
| BioPl4620 | Plant Biochemistry |
| BioPl6410 | Laboratory in Plant Molecular Biology (also BIOBM641) |
| BioPl6420 | Plant Mineral Nutrition (also CSS642) |
| BioPl6490 | Solute Transport in Plants (also BEE6490) |
| BioPl6510 | Water Transport in Plants (also BEE6470) |
| BioPl6540 | Botanical Nomenclature |
| BioPl6560 | Topics in Plant Evolution |
Undergraduate Teaching
| Course | Description |
| BioPl4980 | Teaching Experience |
Graduate modules
*Formerly sections of BioPl482-Plant Molecular Biology II and BioPl483-Plant Molecular Biology I, each module has now its own code.
| Course | Description |
| BioPl4821 | Molecular Plant-Pathogen Interactions I |
| BioPl4822 | Molecular Plant-Pathogen Interactions II |
| BioPl4823 | Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (also BIOMI 4640, PLPA 4823) |
| BioPl4824 | Plant Gene Evolution and Phylogeny |
| BioPl4825 | Molecular Biology of Plant Organelles (also BIOGD 4825) |
| BioPl4826 | Plant Biotechnology (also PLBR 4826) |
| BioPl4827 | Plant Cell Walls: Structure to Proteome |
| BioPl4828 | Plant Imaging |
| BioPl4829 | Light Signal Transduction in Plants |
| BioPl4831 | Concepts and Techniques in Plant Molecular Biology (also PLPA/PLBR 4831) |
| BioPl4832 | Proteomics in Plant Biology |
| BioPl4833 | Plant Genome Organization and Function (also PLBR 4833) |
| BioPl4834 | Molecular Aspects of Plant Development I (also BIOBM 4834) |
| BioPl4835 | Molecular Breeding (also PLBR 4835) |
| BioPl4836 | Plant Senescence (also HORT 6252) |
Discussion groups
| Course | Description |
| BioPl6470 | Systematic Biology Journal Club |
| BioPl7410 | Problems in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology |
| BioPl7420 | Current Papers in Plant Biology |
Seminars
| Course | Description |
| BioPl7400 | Plant Biology Seminar |
| BioPl7430 | Faculty Research in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology |
| BioPl7440 | Graduate Research in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology |
| BioPl7450 | Seminar in Systematic Botany |
| BioPl7460 | Seminar in Systematic Botany: Student Research |
Graduate Research
| Course | Description |
| BioPl7490 | Graduate Research in Botany |