Applied Plant Physiology

This course is offered to students in the third year of the professional bachelor’s 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 agricultural practices. The following major topics in plant physiology will be covered, highlighting the contributions of functional biology to a detailed understanding of these processes at the molecular and cellular levels:

• Water management and sustainable irrigation,
• N, P, and K Nutrition, Inputs, and Agroecology,
• C3 and C4 photosynthesis;
• The Relationship Between Water and Carbohydrate Intake,
• Vegetative growth of the stem and roots,
• Flowering, pollination, seed and fruit development
• The Main Plant Hormones

Laboratory exercises will be conducted to teach students how to design an experimental protocol for studying a physiological process

Knowledge:

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

Expertise:

• Analyzing Functional Biology Results
• Develop an experimental protocol to study a physiological process

Interpersonal Skills:

• Reflect, analyze documents
• Write Clearly and Precisely

Hourly volumes*:

            CM: 18

            TD: 18

            TP: 9

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