Base Knowledge
Knowledge of contents in Botany, Biology and Plant Physiology is recommended.
Teaching Methodologies
1. Presentation of the theoretical fundamentals necessary for the development of the contents 2. execution of practical laboratory work related to the theme 3. individual or group work to solve questions presented by the teacher or formulated by the students 4. oral presentation and discussion of the final product of the research
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
Grading Methods
- - 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%
- - Exame - 100.0%
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Azcon-Bieto, J.; Talon, M. – Fisiologia y Bioquimica Vegetal. Interamericana, McGraw Hill. Nova lorque. 2013.
Bibliografia complementar:
Buchanan, B.; Guissem, W.; Jones, R. L. Biochemistry & molecular biology of plants: Rockville: Americam Society of Plant Physiologists, 2019. 1367pp.
Fageria, N.; Baligar, V.; Clark, R.. Physiology of crop production. Haworth Press, New York. 2016.
Hay, R.; Porter, J. The physiology of crop yield. 2ª edition. Blackwell, Oxford, 2006. 314pp.
Hunt, R. 1990. Basic growth analysis. Unwin Hyman, London.
Lambers, H.; Chapin, F.; Pon, T. Plant physiological ecology, 2nd edition. Springer, Berlin. 2008.
Martinez, F. – Elementos de Fisiologia Vegetal. Ed. Mundi, Prensa. Madrid. 2018.
Morison, J.; Morecroft, M. Plant growth and climate change. Blackwell, Oxford. 2006.
Pessarakli, M. Handbook of photosynthesis. CRC – Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton. 2005.
Raven, P.; Evert, R.; Eichhorn, S. – Biologia Vegetal, 6ª edição. Guanabara Koogan S. A. Rio de Janeiro. 2001.
Salisbury, F.; Ross, C. – Plant Physiology. 4th edition. Wadsworth Pub. Comp. California. 1992.
Taiz, L.; Zeiger, E. Plant physiology, 4th edition. Sinauer Associates, Suderlands. 2016.