> One of my botany students has chosen water stress and drought tolerance as
> a term paper topic. I am feeling guilty about sending him off to write a
> paper on a topic for which I have given him little to no preparation, as my
> class does not include physiology. Are there good sources that he can use
> on this topic without having extensive knowledge of plant water relations?
> I had hoped that the students would become exposed to primary literature,
> but I'm not sure he will be able to understand any of it. Thanks for your
> help.
>> Scott Shumway
> Associate Professor of Biology
> Dept. of Biology
> Wheaton College
> Norton, MA 02766
> 508-286-3945
>sshumway at wheatonma.edu> fax 508-285-8278
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Scott,
I would recommend that your student start by reading the drought part of the
Abiotic Stress chapter in a Plant Physiology text or the new Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology text. After that they can probably understand the
primary literature much better.
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Grant R. Cramer
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Mail Stop 200
University of Nevada
Reno, NV 89557
Phone: (775) 784-4204
Fax: (775) 784-1650
Email: cramer at unr.edu
Web page: http://gcramer-mac.ag.unr.edu/index.html
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