Applied Plant Physiology

This course is offered to students in the professional bachelor's degree program "Plant Experimentation for the Improvement and Protection of Mediterranean and Tropical Plants." Its objective is to provide students with the conceptual foundations of plant physiology in order to understand cultivation practices. The following major themes in plant physiology will be addressed, presenting the contributions of functional biology to a detailed understanding of processes at the molecular and cellular levels:

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

Practical work will be carried out to learn how to construct an experimental protocol for studying a physiological process.

Knowledge:

• Being able to link farming practices to plant physiology
• Understanding what Plant Functional Biology is and how it can be used to analyze plant behavior.

Know-how:

• Analyze Functional Biology Results
• Establish an experimental protocol to study a physiological process

Interpersonal skills:

• Reflect, analyze documents
• Write clearly and accurately

Hourly volumes:

            CM: 18

            TD: 18

            TP: 9

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