FOR 325 - ECONOMIC BOTANY: PLANTS AND HUMAN AFFAIRS

College of Ag, Food and Environment

Credit(s): 3

Plants have played a major role in human affairs. Course will relate plant life processes and chemistry to human uses: food crops, spices, medicinals, and materials. Major units are the origins agriculture and early domesticates, ethnobotany, and a selection of plants and plant products with major historical impacts - potato, nutmeg, pepper, chocolate, sugar cane, cotton, quinine, rubber, tobacco. Contemporary themes include herbal medicine and plant-based pharmaceuticals.

Prereq: PLS 104, PLS 210, one year of introductory biology, or permission of the instructor.