Plant physiology
Professor: Miguel Pedro Guerra
Compulsory/Elective: Elective
Course workload: 45 h
Credits: 3
Sylabus: Water and water relations, absorption, transpiration, and water potential. Mineral Nutrition of Plants, absorption, transport, function, and Metabolism of Nitrogen, absorption and fixation. Photosynthetic mechanisms in higher plants, C3, C4, and CAM plants. Photorespiration. Plant hormones and regulators. Photomorphogenesis in plants.
Bibliography:
Books
BUCHANAN, B.B., GRUISSEM, W. and. JONES, R.L. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants. 2000.
DAVIES, P.J. (ed.). Biosynthesis, Signal Transduction, Action. 3.ed.Revised. Dordrecht: Martinus Nirjhoff Pu., 2010.
KERBAUY, G.B. Fisiologia Vegetal. 2 Ed. Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara Koogan, 2008. 431p.
LARCHER, W. Ecofisiologia vegetal. São Carlos: RIMA, 2000. 531p.
LEHNINGER, A.L.; NELSON, D.L.; COX, M.M. Principles of Biochemistry. 2 ed. New York: Worth Publishers, 1994. 1013p. (p.618-636; p. 633-34).
RAVEN, P.H; EVERT, R.F; EICHHORN, S.E. Biologia Vegetal. 6ª ed. Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara-Koogan, 2001. 906p.
SALISBURY, F.B.; ROSS, C.W. Plant Physiology. 4.ed. Belmont: Wadsworth Pub., 1993. 682 p.
TAIZ, L.; ZEIGER, E. Fisiologia vegetal. 4.ed. Porto Alegre: Artmed, 2008. 819p.
TAIZ, L.; ZEIGER, E. Plant Physiology. Sianauer associates. Sunderland, 690 p. 2002.
Journals
The Plant Cell
Journal of Experimental Botany
Plant Physiology
Annual Review of Plant Physiology
Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology
