Plant Propagation

To achieve the objectives of the course and the skills conference provided to students, the teaching and learning process is based on:
In the case studies, together with a set of instructions that lead the student to analyze them, to reach conclusions and make decisions or suggest actions, the implementation of practical application of theoretical concepts, which can either be numerical in nature, as laboratory or field; bibliographic research necessary to supplement the information obtained in the classroom and to the achievement of reports. 

The plant propagation aims: 1) to ascertain the methodologies and techniques associated with plant breeding and propagation; 2) to know the advantages, restrictions and conditions of different techniques of plant propagation, 3) to know the methods for genetics conformity assessment and 4) to meet the requirements for quality assessment and plant certification.

1 The knowledge of the effect of propagation biology, environmental factors, genetic and vegetal plant material on plant propagation.
2 Sexual and asexual propagation: genetic control, advantages, limitations and conditions. Seed orchard and vegetative stock plants management; The genetic limits in controlled pollination and grafting.
3 Micropropagation methods and the types of systems used to regenerate plantlets: advantages, limitations and conditions. The variation in micropropagated plants: methods for genetics conformity assessment. The somatic hybridization by protoplast culture, their applications and limitations.
4 The largescale propagation of selected plants: Propagation methods, quality assessment and plant certification.

• - Performance, presentation and discussion of works - 80.0%
• - Practical work - 20.0%

NAO

Canhoto, J.M. 2010 Biotecnologia vegetal, da clonagem de plantas à transformação genética. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.
Debnath, S.C. 2010 Berry bioreactor micropropagation and molecular analysis for genetic fidelity. Acta Hort. 865, 4351.
Gahan, P.B. and George, E.F. 2008 Adventitious regeneration. In: Plant propagation by tissue culture, 3rd ed. (eds. George, E.F., Hall, M.A. and De Klerk, G.J.), pp. 355401. Springer, Dordrech.
George, E.F. and Davies, W. 2008 Effects of the physical environment. In: Plant propagation by tissue culture, 3rd ed. (eds. George, E.F., Hall, M.A. and De Klerk, G.J.), pp. 423464. Springer, Dordrecht.
Hartman, H.T., Kester, D.E., Davies, J.F.T. and Geneve, R.L. 1997 Plant propagation: principles and practices, 6th ed. PrenticeHall, Inc., New Jersey.
Preece, J. 2008 Stock plant physiological factors affecting growth and morphogenesis. In: Plant propagation by tissue culture, 3rd ed. (eds. George, E.F., Hall, M.A.), pp. 403422. Springer.