Course detail

LZT5710 - Physiology of Forage Plants I


Credit hours

In-class work
per week
Practice
per week
Credits
Duration
Total
4
1
8
15 weeks
120 hours

Instructor
Patricia Menezes Santos

Objective
The aim of this discipline is to study physiological process and their implications for the growth of forage plants. Interactions between plants and environment and implications of water relationships, photosynthesis and plant development to forage production will also be discussed.

Content

1. Water in plants. 1.1. Water structure and properties. 1.2. Mechanisms of water transport: mass flow, difusion and osmosis. 1.3. Water potential. 1.4. Water relationships: uptake, transport, transpiration and water balance. 2. Carbon metabolim. 2.1. Light interception: leaf area index, capony, light competition. 2.2. Photosynthesis: photochemical phase, fixation and reduction of carbon. 2.3. Photosynthetic cycles and its implications. 2.4. Transport and distribuition of photoassimilates. 4. Plants growth and development. 4.1. Growth, differentiation and development. 4.2. Growth stages. 4.3. Mechanisms of control of plant development. 5. Physiology of plants under stress. 5.1. Biotic and abiotic stress. 5.2. Water stress.

Bibliography
JONES, H.G. Plants and microclimate: a quantitative approach to environmental plant physiology. Cambridge University Press. 2014.
LOPES, F.N.; LIMA, M.G.S. Fisiologia da produção. Editora UFV. 2015.
TAIZ, L.; ZEIGER, E.; Moller, I.M. Murphy, A. Plant physiology and development. Sunderland: Sinauer Associates, 2015.
Annals of Botany
Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology
Journal of Experimental Botany
Physiologia Plantarum
Plant Physiology
Planta