| CODE | RFS0500 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Anatomy and Physiology of Crops | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 00 - Mod Pre-Tert, Foundation, Proficiency & DegreePlus | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 4 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Rural Sciences and Food Systems | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit focuses on plants, particularly those related to agriculture. The anatomy and physiology of plants will be tackled. This will be divided into three sections: - Anatomy and Physiology of Plants: External morphology of higher plants; morphology of individual organs; diversity of floral morphology; morphology and relative importance of gametophyte and sporophyte phases; principal parts of the flower; pollination and fertilisation; adaptation for insect and wind pollination as exemplified by dicots and monocots. - Supporting Tissues and Transport in Plants: Supporting tissues in plants; the structure and function of turgid parenchyma, collenchyma, slerenchyma, xylem elements, and their distribution in root, stem and leaf in relation to their mechanical functions; transport in flowering plants; histology of xylem and phloem in relation to their roles in transport. - Physiology of Crops: An introduction to the fundamental principles of plant physiology; the basic physiology of the respiratory, photosynthesis, homeostatic control, reproduction, nutrition, metabolism; crop physiology. Study-Unit Aims: To teach the botany - physical characters and physiology - of plants of relevance to agriculture. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - describe the different macro and microscopic structures of plants; - match the activity of plant organs to function (e.g. xylem for water transport); - explain the importance of the different plant organs; - describe the main effects of environmental parameters on crops; - express the importance of photosynthesis in crops. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - examine a plant for its characteristics features; - demonstrate the functions of the different plant organs; - explain how plants respond to external stimuli; - relate the process of photosynthesis to the accumulation of sugars in fruits. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Pessarakli, M. (Ed.). (2002). Handbook of plant and crop physiology (No. 22137). New York: Marcel Dekker. - Gutschick, V. P. (2012). A functional biology of crop plants. Springer Science & Business Media. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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