Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4316231 Plant Biology, Genomics and Biotechnology | OB | 0 | 1 |
Basic knowledge in Plant Physiology and Plant Metabolism
Acquisition of an integrative view of how different organisation levels (molecular, metabolic, and physiologic) cooperate in the functioning of the whole plant, with special emphasis on the metabolic diversity of plants and its regulation by internal and external factors
Plant cell compartmentation
Energy transformation
Transport processes in plants and their regulation
Primary metabolism
Diversity of secondary metabolism
Regulation of plant metabolism
Industrial use of plant secondary metabolism
Experimental techniques in Plant Physiology and Metabolism
-Growth analysis and phenotyping
-Membrane stability
-Water and ion relationships
-Chlorophyll fluorescence
-Analysis of metabolism
Presencial activities are lectures, seminars, lab. practice, and visit to research institution. Attendance is required; absence should be justified. Lectures are held by the academic staff. Seminars include an individual oral presentation of a selected reserach article by each student and discussion. For lab practice students are divided into 3 groups. Part of the lab practices are demostrative. For each practical session students have to prepare a report presenting and discussing the results.
Elaboration of seminar presentations and lab reportare supervised activities;
Autonomous activities include scientific reading and personal study
Students can ask the academic staff for personal turorial session
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lab practice | 9.5 | 0.38 | 6, 5, 8, 9, 10 |
Lectures | 18 | 0.72 | 1, 6, 5, 2, 3 |
Seminars | 10 | 0.4 | 7, 8, 4 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Preparation of seminars and reports | 24 | 0.96 | 1, 6, 5, 7, 8, 4, 2, 3, 9, 10 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Personal study, consult and analysis of articles and reports | 87.5 | 3.5 | 1, 6, 5, 7, 3, 9 |
Final qualification is composed by the following items: attendance and participation in lectures and seminars (10%), report of laboratory activities 20%, individual oral presentation at seminar 30%, and written exam of lecture contents (40%)
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Attendance and participation in lectures and seminars | 10% | 0 | 0 | 1, 7, 8, 10 |
Lab report | 20% | 0 | 0 | 7, 4, 3, 9, 10 |
Oral presentation | 30% | 0 | 0 | 7, 4, 9, 10 |
Written exam | 40% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 6, 5, 8, 2 |
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Barceló J (2010) Perspectivas y retos de estudio en Fisiología vegetal, Boletin de la Sociedad Española de Fisiología vegetal 51: 35-44
Taiz L, Zeiger E, Moller IM, Murphy A (2014) Plant Physiology and Development, 6th edition. Sinaurer Assoc. Oxford Univ Press. http://6e.plantphys.net/
Buchanan BB, Griessen W, Jones RL (2015) Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants. 2nd edition; Wiley, Blackwell, Chichester, U.K.
Jones R, Ougham H, Thomas H, Waaland S (2013) The Molecular Life of Plants, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, U.K.
Grierson CS et al (2011) One-hundred Questions Facing Plant Science Research. New Phytologist 192: 6-12. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03859.x/full