Teaching Methodologies
In order to achieve the objectives of the curricular unit and the competences foreseen for the students, the process of teaching learning is based on: Exposition of the theoretical foundations necessary for content development; Individual or group work for the resolution of questions presented by the teacher or formulated by the students; Execution of practical laboratory work related to the subject; Oral presentation and discussion of the final research product.
Learning Results
Understand the water-plant-atmosphere relation ships; Understand the carbon balance and plant productivity; Understand the dynamics and kinetics of growth and development in plant productivity.
Program
Competence 1: 1 Water flow in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum; 2 Water relations in plant cells and tissues; 3 Transpiration; 4 Water deficit and plant growth; 5 Water saving in the plant
Competence 2: 1 Photochemistry and assimilation of CO2; 2 Structure of the photosynthetic system; 3 Photorespiration; 4 Intrinsic and extrinsic factors that affect the photosynthetic process; 5 Interaction between carbon and nitrogen metabolism and the impact on plant productivity; 6 Synthesis, regulation, accumulation and translocation of assimilates; 7 Respiratory metabolism; 8 Respiration and the plant energetics; 9 Day course of the physiological processes in function of the environmental variations.
Competence 3: 1 Mechanisms and levels of control ; 2 Plant hormones and growth regulators; 3 Physiology of germination and dormancy of seeds; 4 Differentiation, reproduction and yield; 5 Growth of plants in modified environments.
Curricular Unit Teachers
José Manuel Serras de Oliveira TavaresInternship(s)
NAO
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