PLS425

042955

Plants serve as important sources for many useful industrial and other non-food products that are critical to our modern society, including fibers, biofuels, latex, specialty oils, waxes, dyes, resins, cork, fermented beverages, biopharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and many others. This course explores these valuable products with a focus on historical-, modern-, and emerging-biotechnologies used in their production. For this course, biotechnology is defined in the broadest sense to include the use of both transgenic and non-transgenic approaches, cell and tissue culture, fermentation, product harvesting and processing biotechnologies, and commercialization and entrepreneurial opportunities for plant-based products.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

PLS 240 or MCB 181R, or equivalent basic biology.

PLS525