ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 30 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 51
Use languages Spanish (100%)
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Functional Biology
Areas: Plant Physiology
Center Faculty of Sciences
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
-To understand the basic processes of plant functioning, focusing on carbon metabolism as the basis of plant development and its spatial and temporal regulation and integration.
-To know how to apply plant biotechnology useful in agroindustry, critically analysing (under different approaches) the different approaches to plant growth control, making decisions according to the available resources, working in multidisciplinary groups.
-Knowing the scientific method, handling a large amount of information to analyse in depth the different physiological phenomena.
-Ability to communicate and/or adopt advances in the agricultural field.
-Theory:
Water and nutrient relationships and transport in plants. Photosynthesis. Developmental physiology. Introduction to plant biotechnology. Physiology under stress conditions.
-Practical exercises:
Water potential. Transpiration. Transport by xylem. Photosynthesis. Plant hormones. Germination. Plants under stress conditions.
Basic bibliography,
Azcón-Bieito J, Talón M (eds). 2008 (2ª ed.). Fundamentos de Fisiología vegetal. Madrid: McGraw-Hill Interamericana. ISBN 978-84-481-5168-3. (FVE 120/121/122/123/241).
Barceló J, Nicolás G, Sabater B, Sánchez-Tamés R. 2000 (7ª ed.). Fisiología Vegetal. Madrid: Pirámide. ISBN 84-368-1521-4. (FVE 12).
García Breijo FJ, Roselló Caselles J, Santamarina Siurana MP. 2006. Introducción al funcionamiento de las plantas. Valencia: Ediciones Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. ISBN 84-9705-944-1. (FVE 201).
Hopkins WG, Hüner NPA. 2009 (4ª ed.). Introduction to plant physiology. Nueva York (NY): Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-24766-2. (FVE 288/344).
Pineda, M. 2004. Resúmenes de Fisiología Vegetal. Córdoba: Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad de Córdoba. ISBN 84-7801-718-6 (FVE 145/243).
Taiz L, Zeiger E, Moller IA, Murphy A. 2015 (6th ed.). Plant physiology and development. Sunderland (MA):Sinauer Associates Inc. ISBN 978-1-60535-255-8. (FVE 374; 5ª ed. FVE317; 4º ed. 132, 196; en castellano,FVE 119/225) http://6e.plantphys.net/.
Complementary bibliography,
Beltrán JP, García Olmedo F, Puigdoménech P. 2003. Plantas transgénicas. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. ISBN 84-7800-718-0. (FVE 361).
Buchanan RB, Gruissem W, Jones RL. 2015 (2ªed). Biochemistry and molecular biology of plants. Chichester (UK): American Society of Plant Physiologists, Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-470-71422-5. (A VBF 77H/ A VBF 77I/VBF346). http://www.aspb.org/publications/biotext/
Davies PJ (ed.) 2004 (3ª ed). Plant hormones: biosynthesis, signal transduction, action. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. ISBN 1-4020-2685-4 (1-4020-2686-2 e-book) (FVE 181).
Epstein E, Bloom AJ. 2005 (2ª ed.). Mineral nutrition of plants: principles and perspective. Sunderland (MA, USA): Sinauer Associates Inc. ISBN 0-87893-172-4. (FVE 355).
Jones R, Ougham H, Thomas H, Waaland S. 2013. The molecular life of plants. Chichester (UK): Wiley- Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-470-87012. (FVE 327). http://www.wiley.com/go/molecularlifeofplants.
Raghavendra, A.S. (ed.) 2000. Photosynthesis a comprehensive treatise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-78444-1. (FVE 286).
Web pages
http://6e.plantphys.net/
http://www.wiley.com/go/buchanan/biochem
http://plantphys.info/Plant_Biology/Schedule.html
http://www.biologia.edu.ar/plantas/indplantas.htm
http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/plantmotion/starthere.html
Basics and generals
CG2 - To think in an integrated way and approach problems from different perspectives both at a technical-professional level and in relation to the social/economic problems that involve a biochemist.
CG4 - To have an integrated vision of cellular functioning (including metabolism and gene expression), covering its regulation and the relationship between the different cellular compartments.
CB2 - That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the competences that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defence of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
CB5 - That students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
Transversals
CT3 - Ability to work in a team.
CT6 - Ability to search for, analyse and manage information from different sources.
CT7 - Ability to solve problems.
CT10 - Capacity for critical reasoning and argumentation, and self-critical capacity.
CT14 - Ability to apply knowledge to practice.
CT15 - Ability to communicate orally and in writing.
Specifics
CES4 - Understand the main physiological processes of multicellular organisms, as well as the molecular bases of these physiological processes. Have an integrated view of the intercellular communication and intracellular signalling systems that regulate the proliferation, differentiation, development and function of tissues and organs, in order to understand how the complexity of molecular interactions determines the phenotype of living organisms.
LECTURE CLASSES
The lectures will take place during the second semester, according to the timetable approved by the centre. The subject will be taught in lecture classes (expository in a large group), where the lecturer will present the contents of the subject with the help of audiovisual media (blackboard and projector). Prior to the lecture, all the material necessary to follow the class will be available to students on the Virtual Campus.
Students will be required to participate at all times, discussing what they have learnt in the subject and relating it to previous subjects. The associated competences are the following: CG2, CG4, CB5, CT6, CT10, CT15, CES4.
LABORATORY PRACTICALS
The laboratory practicals will be carried out simultaneously with the theoretical classes. These practicals will be related to the theoretical contents of the subject of Plant Physiology. During the practicals, a series of experiments, monitoring and/or observations will be carried out by applying experimental protocols described in the practicals script. This script will be available to students in the virtual classroom before each session and students must review the script before starting the practical. While the practical is being carried out, students will take notes on it in order to be able to be evaluated afterwards. Attendance is compulsory. Students who have previously completed all the practicals are exempt from this obligation; the practicals will be kept for two years.
The associated competences are the following: CB2, CT3, CT6, CT7, CT14, CT15.
INTERACTIVE CLASSES (SEMINARS)
In the seminars, students, individually or in groups, will carry out a work related to the theoretical contents of the subject. The students will have to present the topic orally using the flipchart and the blackboard. Afterwards, both the other students and the teacher will ask any questions that may have arisen during the presentation of the subject.
The associated competences are the following: CB2, CT3, CT6, CT7, CT14, CT15.
TUTORIALS
The tutorials will be used to resolve any doubts that the student may have during the course. These doubts will be solved and discussed collectively by the teacher and the students, encouraging the active participation of the student in their own learning.
The associated competences are the following: CT10, CT15.
Theoretical assessment:
The theoretical assessment will consist of a written exam on the contents of the subject. The teacher will evaluate the mastery of the theoretical knowledge of the subject. The grade will be 60% of the final mark. The associated competences are the following: CG2, CG4, CB5, CT7, CT10, CT15, CES4.
Practical assessment:
The teacher will evaluate attendance, participation and the use made of the practicals. The evaluation of the practicals will take place through the submission of a practical report or a practical exam. Attendance at all practicals is compulsory. The grade will be 25% of the final mark. The associated competences are the following: CB2, CG4, CT6, CT7, CT10, CT14, CT15.
Evaluation of interactive classes (seminars):
Attendance to all seminars is compulsory to be graded in this section. Both the presentation of the work and the ability to answer questions will be graded. The grade will be 15% of the final grade. The associated competences are the following: CB2, CT3, CT10, CT15, CES4.
The final grade for the subject will be the sum of the marks obtained in the theoretical assessment, practical, seminar.
"For cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, what is established in the "Regulations for the evaluation of students' academic performance and revision of grades" will apply.
The final exam is compulsory for students who do not pass the continuous assessment.
Classroom hours:
- Lectures: 30 hours
- Interactive classes (seminars): 3 hours
- Laboratory practicals: 15 hours
- Tutorials: 3 hours
Total face-to-face hours: 51 hours
Students' personal work
Reading and preparation of the topics: 20 hours
Preparation of laboratory practicals: 4 hours
Preparation of the practical report or exam: 20 hours
Preparation of seminars: 14 hours
Exam preparation: 41 hours
Total non-classroom hours: 99 hours
- Total hours of student work: 150 hours
- Attendance at subject activities and continued study of the subject are the best guarantee of passing the course.
- Involvement and active participation in the discussions that arise in the different types of sessions; students must be aware of their central role in the acquisition of competences.
- Consult the recommended bibliography for each subject prior to the sessions, regardless of the nature of the sessions. And afterwards, to reinforce what has been learnt.
- Working on a daily basis will make it easier to follow the classes, the practical sessions and to pass the assessment tests.
- Summarise, with tables and/or diagrams that relate the different parts of the subject, what has been studied.
A basic knowledge of Biology and Biochemistry will make it easier to follow the course.
Javier Veloso Freire
- Department
- Functional Biology
- Area
- Plant Physiology
- Phone
- 982822467
- javier.veloso [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
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