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No man qualifies as a statesman who is
entirely ignorant of the problems of
wheat. Socrates
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• Things plant physiologists (or those with
  training in plant physiology) do for a living
• Work for industries developing new crops,
  screening plants for medicinal properties,
  generating biofuels, developing herbicides,
  making better wine, etc.
• Work for the federal agencies
• research on drought, insect pests, invasive
  plants, agriculture
• interpretive work for park visitors
• cultural knowledge
• 3. Advise investors on what commodities (wheat,
  sugar beets, tobacco) to buy or sell based on
  climatic forecasts and knowledge of
  climate-productivity relationships
• 4. Teach (and do research) in universities
• 5. Run a farm

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Please read the syllabus
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• How plants make a living
• What do plants need to grow and reproduce?
• essential resources
• How do they meet these needs?
• acquisition of resources
• What do they do with these resources?
• allocation to various structures functions
• How do they perceive and respond to their
  environment, including biotic (e.g. herbivores or
  microbes) and abiotic factors (light, temp., etc.)

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What is all this physics and math stuff- work,
free energy, entropy, etc. - doing in a botany
class?!
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Plants (like rockets, gophers, bridges and
everything else we know of) operate within a set
of constraints that we describe with physical
laws that say what must happen, and what cant
happen, when energy is transformed or
exchanged. A powerful approach to understanding
plant function is to examine how energy is
gained,transformed, and used to do work.
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For Friday Read chapters 1 2 (pdf)