Applied Plant Physiology

This course is offered to students in the L3 professional program "Plant Experimentation for the Improvement and Protection of Mediterranean and Tropical Plants". The objective is to give students the conceptual basis of plant physiology in order to understand cultural practices. The following major topics of plant physiology will be addressed by presenting the contributions of Functional Biology for the fine understanding of processes at the molecular and cellular level:

• Water nutrition and irrigation,
• N, P, K nutrition, inputs and agroecology,
• C3 and C4 photosynthesis;
• Relationship between water and carbon nutrition,
• Cauline and root vegetative development,
• Floral transition, fertilization, seed and fruit development
• The main plant hormones

Practical exercises will be carried out in order to learn how to build an experimental protocol to study a physiological process

Knowledge:

• Be able to relate cultural practices to plant physiology
• Understand what Functional Plant Biology is and how it can be used to analyze plant behavior.

Know how to do it:

• Analyze Functional Biology results
• Set up an experimental protocol to study a physiological process

Know-how:

• Reflect, analyze documents
• Write with clarity and precision

Hourly volumes* :

            CM : 18

            TD : 18

            TP : 9

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