ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.5 Hours of tutorials: 2 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Functional Biology
Areas: Plant Physiology
Center Higher Polytechnic Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
-Know, understand and use the principles of plant species identification and characterisation.
-Know, understand and use the principles of the bases of plant production, production, protection and exploitation systems.
-Know, understand and use the principles of biotechnology applications in agricultural engineering.
-Knowing how to make decisions by using the resources available for working in multidisciplinary groups.
-Know how to transfer technology, understand, interpret, communicate and adopt advances in the agricultural field.
-Explain the basic processes of plant functioning, focusing on carbon metabolism as the basis of plant development and its spatial and temporal regulation and integration, in order to know, understand and use the principles of the bases of plant production, production, protection and exploitation systems.
-To instruct them in the scientific method, so that they can solve new problems, handle the large amount of information to which they now have access and make an in-depth analysis of the different phenomena.
Lectures (18h): The hydric and nutritional relations, and the transport in plants. The carbon economy. Control of the biological and economic performance of plants. Developmental physiology. Physiology under stress conditions. Introduction to plant biotechnology. Phytoremediation.
Practises (18h): The 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
General
GC1 - Knowledge in basic, scientific and technological subjects that allow for continuous learning, as well as an ability to adapt to new situations or changing environments.
GC2 - Ability to solve problems with creativity, initiative, methodology and critical reasoning.
GC3 - Capacity for leadership, communication and transmission of knowledge, skills and abilities in the social spheres of action.
GC5 - Ability to develop their activities, assuming a social, ethical and environmental commitment in tune with the reality of the human and natural environment.
Specific to the subject
FB8- Knowledge of the biological bases and foundations of the plant and animal field in engineering.
CR2 - Ability to know, understand and use the principles of the bases of plant production, production, protection and exploitation systems.
CR 4: Ability to know, understand and use the principles of biotechnology applications in agricultural and livestock engineering.
Transversal
The twelve transversal competences included in the degree report are worked on in the different activities as shown in the following section.
(See contingency measures in Observations)
Face-to-face
Expository:
The subject will be taught in lectures (expository in large groups). In them, teachers will present the contents of the subject with the help of audiovisual media (their voice, the blackboard and the projector).
Students will be required to participate at all times, but more so in this active discussion of the application of what has been learnt in each subject. Copies of the slides presented will be available in the virtual classroom of the subject.(CG1, CG2, FB8, CR2, CR4,CR8,CR9).
Interactive:
The practical laboratory classes, which will be carried out simultaneously with the theoretical classes.
A series of experiments, follow-ups and/or observations will be carried out applying experimental protocols that will be available in the virtual classroom before each session, which the students will have to know before starting them. Attendance is compulsory. Students who have completed all the practicals are exempt from this obligation, the practicals will be kept for two courses. (CT1,2,3,4,6 and 12).
Seminars:
In the seminars (interactive activities in small groups), the students will have to carry out a work related to the theory topics and they will have to present it using the projector and the blackboard. (CT3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11).
Tutorials:
In the tutorials the doubts that the students have about any aspect of the subject will be solved.(CT2,3,12).
(See contingency measures in Remarks)
The criteria used and the weighting of each part is described below:
-Theoretical assessment:
Written exam on the contents of the subject. The grade will be 55% of the final mark. The competences to be assessed are listed at the end of the document.
In order to be assessed, the student must have attended at least 80% of the lectures (repeating students are excluded from the above requirement if they had fulfilled it the previous year). The
The teacher will check attendance by means of a signature sheet. (CG1, CG2, FB8, CR2, CR4, CT2).
-Practical evaluation:
In order to be graded in this section it is a condition, sine qua non, i) attendance and participation in all the practical sessions scheduled, and ii) to assess the student's use of the practical sessions the student will be assessed by the delivery of a practical report.
The grade for this section will be 25% of the final mark.
Non-attendance will prevent the student from passing the subject at both the first and the second opportunity. Repeating students will keep their marks for two years (CT1,2,3,4,6,12).
-Seminars:
Attendance at all seminars is compulsory in order to be graded in this section. The presentation and preparation of the subject will be assessed. Non-attendance will prevent the passing of the subject both in the first and in the second opportunity. This section will be worth 10% of the final mark (CT3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11, CG3, CG5).
-Attendance and participation in activities:
Students' attendance and active participation in classroom activities will be assessed. The teacher will control the attendance by means of a signature sheet. The grade will be 10% of the final mark. (CG1, CG2, FB8, CR2, CR4, CT2).
Final grade of the subject: It will be the sum of the marks obtained in the theoretical and practical evaluation, seminars and attendance and active participation. In the case of repeating students, their practical grade will be retained for two years.
"For cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations on the assessment of students' academic performance and the review of qualifications shall apply".
In both the first and the second opportunity, a theoretical-practical exam may be held for students who do not pass the continuous assessment
Students with attendance dispensation, who have renounced to attend any of the scheduled teaching activities due to work or family reconciliation, must comply with the provisions of the Instruction 1/2017 of the General Secretariat. In such cases, in order to pass this subject, it is compulsory to attend the practical activities.
Study time and individual work
Contact hours: Total 38. Expository classes, 18; interactive, 18 laboratory practices; exam, 2.
Non-contact hours: 74.5.
Total student work time = 112.5 hours.
Recommendations for the study of the subject
Involvement and active participation in the discussions that arise in the different types of sessions;
the student being aware of their central role in the acquisition of skills.
· Consult each topic prior to the sessions, regardless of their nature, in the
recommended bibliography. And later, to reinforce what has been learned.
· Working daily will facilitate monitoring of classes, practices and overcoming
evaluation tests.
· Do it in a group, because it is more entertaining and provokes very formative debates.
· Summarize, with tables and / or diagrams that relate the different parts of the subject, what has been studied.
Having studied Biology is a fundamental requirement to be able to follow the subject.
A basic knowledge of biochemistry will facilitate the teaching task.
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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