Free ebookPlant Biology Basics: Photosynthesis, Transport, and Growth

Course Description

Plant Biology Basics: Photosynthesis, Transport, and Growth is a practical ebook course designed for anyone who wants a clear foundation in plant science within basic studies and biology. You will learn how plants capture energy, move water and sugars, and regulate growth, so you can understand what you see in gardens, farms, forests, and labs with confidence.

Starting with plant structures that make life possible, the course builds a step by step understanding of photosynthesis, how light energy becomes sugars, and how plant respiration uses those sugars to power cells day and night. You will connect leaf gas exchange to stomata behavior, seeing how plants balance CO2 intake with water loss and why this balance matters under heat, drought, and changing humidity.

You will also explore how water transport works through xylem, transpiration pull, and root uptake, then move into sugar transport in phloem through source sink relationships and storage. These concepts explain everyday outcomes such as wilting, leaf scorch, slow growth, fruit filling, and recovery after watering. As you progress, plant hormones and signaling bring together growth control and environmental responses, helping you understand how plants coordinate development across tissues.

By linking meristems, cell expansion, and tropisms to real plant behavior, you will be able to interpret patterns like bending toward light, root direction changes, and differences between healthy and stressed growth. The course finishes by putting plant processes together so you can diagnose plant health using clues from photosynthesis and transport, turning biology knowledge into useful observations and better decisions.

Begin this course today and build a strong, usable understanding of plant biology that supports study, teaching, gardening, and everyday curiosity.