To improve my teaching I collect instructive examples of students misconceptions about plant biology (e.g. all plants make photosynthesis) beyond photosynthesis and respiration. Many are formed at a very young age and persist throughout all educational levels. Please help and RT

There are several publications documenting students misconceptions about photosynthesis and respiration. There are far fewer on topics like plant evolution, cell structure and growth, nutrition, genetics, water relationships, biotic and abiotic interactions... Any help welcomed!

Many pupils believe that bacteria and fungi colonizing plants and animals are always harmful to their hosts...

Numerous microbes colonize plants and animals constituting the host microbiota which greatly extend the host’s genome and trait repertoire. The plant microbiome is a key determinant of plant health and productivity and its microbes can be parasites, commensals or mutualists.

The idea that a mycorrhiza is the fungus forming a mycorrhizal symbiosis with its host plant.

The term ‚mycorrhiza‘ is derived from the Greek ‚μύκης mýkēs ‚fungus‘ and ῥίζα rhiza ‚root‘; plural mykorrhizae or mykorrhizas‘, and generally describes the symbiosis in roots of host plants with mycorrhizal fungi.

Immunoprecipitation is regularly used for „immuno-affinity purification“. Unfortunately this is wrong: Immunoprecipitation is the spontaneous precipitation of the antibody complex with its target, unrelated to bead-bound affinity purification (provided by Martin Parniske).