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Plant Biology Minor

The Department of Plant Biology offers two departmental minors: 1) minor in plant biology and 2) minor in environmental horticulture, and participates in the interdisciplinary minor in plant pest management. These minors are available to all students and are designed to provide a flexible and broad selection of courses to complement any other major area of study. MINIMUM OF 20 CREDITS.

Specific Requirements

PBIO 401 Plant Biology Orientation (1 credit)
PBIO 412 Introductory Botany (or equivalent) or BIOL 601 Biology of Plants

Electives

PBIO 566 Systematic Botany
PBIO 601 Biology of Plants
PBIO 625 Introduction to Marine Biology
PBIO 653 Forest and Shade Tree Pathology
PBIO 668 Summer Flora of New Hampshire
PBIO 701/702 Plant Physiology (3 cr.) / Lab (2 cr.)
PBIO 709 Plant Stress Physiology
PBIO 713 Biochemistry of Photosynthesis
PBIO 714/715 Electron Microscopy (2 cr.) / Lab (3 cr.)
PBIO 717 General Limnology
PBIO 719 Field Studies in Lake Biology (Writing Intensive)
PBIO 721 The Microscopic Algae
PBIO 722 Marine Phycology
PBIO 727 Algal Physiology
PBIO 729 Algal Physiology Laboratory
PBIO 747 Aquatic Higher Plants
PBIO 751 Cell Culture
PBIO 753 Cytogenetics
PBIO 754 Laboratory in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Nucleic Acids (Writing Inten.)
PBIO 758 Plant Anatomy
PBIO 761 Biodiversity: A Phytogeographic Perspective (Writing Intensive)
PBIO 772 Evolutionary Genetics of Plants
PBIO 774/775 Plant Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (3 cr.) / Lab (2 cr.)
PBIO 795 Investigations in Plant Biology
PBIO 799 Honors: Senior Thesis (Writing Intensive)

Students are encouraged to discuss their intent to minor with the Chair of the Department of Plant Biology as early as possible—typically no later than the end of the junior year.

Certification of Minor

During the student’s final semester an application should be made to the dean to have the minor shown on the academic transcript. The student should fill out a Certification of Completion of Minor form and obtain the signatures of the student’s major advisor, the Chair of Plant Biology, and the Dean of COLSA.