Teaching Methodologies
1. Exposição dos fundamentos teóricos necessários ao desenvolvimento dos conteúdos
2. Execução de trabalhos práticos laboratoriais relacionados com a temática
3. Trabalho individual ou em grupo para a resolução de questões apresentadas pelo professor ou formuladas pelos alunos
4. Apresentação oral e discussão do produto final da pesquisa
Learning Results
1. Understand the carbon balance and plant productivity
2.Understanding the dynamics and kinetics of growth and development in plant productivity 3. Understanding the growth and production
4.Understand the importance of adjusting the functions of growth for growth analysis
5. Determine the influence of genetic improvement in increasing the productivity of cultivated plants.
Program
1. Factors plant productivity
2. Responsible for plant production processes and the interaction with the environment
3. Interaction between the metabolism of carbon and nitrogen and the impact on plant productivity
4. Seasonal variation in distribution of assimilates
5. Plant productivity and economic productivity, harvest indices and factors of its regulation
6. Differentiation, reproduction and production
7. Limitations in crop production
8. Biotechnology and plant productivity.
Curricular Unit Teachers
Maria de Fátima Martins Lorena de OliveiraGrading Methods
- - Exame - 100.0%
- - Elaboração de um trabalho escrito/relatório/projecto sobre um tema previamente acordado com o docente, apresentação e discussão - 40.0%
- - Teste escrito - 40.0%
- - Análise crítica de artigo(s) cientifíco(s) - 20.0%
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
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Fageria, N.; Baligar, V.; Clark, R.. Physiology of crop production. Haworth Press, New York. 2006.
Bibliografia complementar:
Morison, J.; Morecroft, M. Plant growth and climate change. Blackwell, Oxford. 2006.
Pessarakli, M. Handbook of photosynthesis. CRC – Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton. 2005.
Azcon-Bieto, J.; Talon, M. – Fisiologia y Bioquimica Vegetal. Interamericana, McGraw Hill. Nova lorque. 1993.
Lambers, H.; Chapin, F.; Pon, T. Plant physiological ecology, 2nd edition. Springer, Berlin. 2008.
Salisbury, F.; Ross, C. – Plant Physiology. 4th edition. Wadsworth Pub. Comp. California. 1992.
Buchanan, B.; Guissem, W.; Jones, R. L. Biochemistry & molecular biology of plants: Rockville: Americam Society of Plant Physiologists, 2000. 1367pp.
Hunt, R. 1990. Basic growth analysis. Unwin Hyman, London.
Taiz, L.; Zeiger, E. Plant physiology, 4th edition. Sinauer Associates, Suderlands. 2006.
Martinez, F. – Elementos de Fisiologia Vegetal. Ed. Mundi, Prensa. Madrid. 1995.
Raven, P.; Evert, R.; Eichhorn, S. – Biologia Vegetal, 6ª edição. Guanabara Koogan S. A. Rio de Janeiro. 2001.