植物生理學是一門探討植物的生命現象以及植物對環境因子反應的科學，以已知之物理化學原理闡釋植物各種生命現象的機理。課程涵蓋了植物水分的吸收和輸導、礦物營養吸收和同化、光合作用、呼吸作用、形態發育、植物荷爾蒙作用機理、逆境生理、基因表現及訊息傳導等領域，是了解植物生命現象不可不知的基礎知識
課程內容如下：
1. Introduction
2. Plant cell
3. Water and plant cells
4. Water balance of the Plant
5. Mineral nutrition
6. Solute transport
7. Photosynthesis: the light reaction
8. Photosynthesis: carbon reaction
9. Photosynthesis: physiological and ecological consideration
10. Translocation in the phloem
11. Respiration and lipid metabolism
12. Assimilation of mineral nutrients
13. Assimilation of mineral nutrients
14. Secondary metabolites and plant defense
15. Gene expression and signal transduction
16. Cell Walls: structure, biogenesis, and expansion
17. Growth and development
18. Phytochrome and light control of plant development
19. Phytochrome and light control of plant development
20. Blue light responses: stomatal movements and morphogenesis
21. Auxins: the growth hormone
22. Gibberellins
23. Cytokinins
24. Ethylene
25. Abscisic acid
26. The control of flowering
27. Stress physiology