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%
- - Análise crítica de artigo(s) cientifíco(s) - 20.0%
- - Teste escrito - 40.0%
- - Elaboração de um trabalho escrito/relatório/projecto sobre um tema previamente acordado com o docente, apresentação e discussão - 40.0%
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
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Azcon-Bieto, J.; Talon, M. – Fisiologia y Bioquimica Vegetal. Interamericana, McGraw Hill. Nova lorque. 1993.
Bibliografia complementar:
Pessarakli, M. Handbook of photosynthesis. CRC – Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton. 2005.
Martinez, F. – Elementos de Fisiologia Vegetal. Ed. Mundi, Prensa. Madrid. 1995.
Fageria, N.; Baligar, V.; Clark, R.. Physiology of crop production. Haworth Press, New York. 2006.
Hay, R.; Porter, J. The physiology of crop yield. 2ª edition. Blackwell, Oxford, 2006. 314pp.
Raven, P.; Evert, R.; Eichhorn, S. – Biologia Vegetal, 6ª edição. Guanabara Koogan S. A. Rio de Janeiro. 2001.
Taiz, L.; Zeiger, E. Plant physiology, 4th edition. Sinauer Associates, Suderlands. 2006.
Lambers, H.; Chapin, F.; Pon, T. Plant physiological ecology, 2nd edition. Springer, Berlin. 2008.
Buchanan, B.; Guissem, W.; Jones, R. L. Biochemistry & molecular biology of plants: Rockville: Americam Society of Plant Physiologists, 2000. 1367pp.
Morison, J.; Morecroft, M. Plant growth and climate change. Blackwell, Oxford. 2006.