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BOT201 Physiology of Plant Production

Credits (ECTS):5

Course responsible:Åshild Gunilla Ergon, Åshild Gunilla Ergon, Tomasz Mroz

Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås

Teaching language:Norsk, engelsk

Course frequency:Every year, in the spring parallell.

Nominal workload:

125 hours, approximately distributed like this:

Lectures: 12 hours

Work with qeustions and problems, course evaluation, with tecaher present: 10 hours

Practical excercises: 8 hours with teacher

Practical work with excercises without teacher, work with journal(s), self study: 95 hours

Teaching and exam period:Spring parallel

About this course

The subject deals with how different factors affect the yield in plant production. The focus is at the crop level rather than the individual plant level. Light energy, water and nutrition. Photosynthesis, photorespiration and respiration. Growth and Development. Allocation of assimilates. Limiting factors. Product quality. Models that simulate yield development.

Learning outcome

Kunnskap:

You can describe qualitative and quantitative relationships determining how light energy, water and nutrition can be transformed to plant products. You can explain how this is controlled by traits and processes in plants, management and other environmental factors.

Ferdigheter:

You can determine the developmental stage of some common agricultural species.

Generell kompetanse:

You have a basic understanding of the relationships between environmental factors, plant development, yield and quality of the harvested product. This enables you to learn more about how management can be optimized, how prediction models for yield and quality function, and how selection for certain traits through plant breeding can result in cultivars with higher yields or a different quality.

  • Learning activities
    The subject consists of lectures, exercises with problems and questions, and a practical excercise throughout the semester where the students conduct their own experiment in the greenhouse and measure plant development. A lab report must be submitted.
  • Teaching support
    Lectures, information about the practical excercise, study questions and other information will be available in Canvas.
  • Prerequisites
    BOT130
  • Assessment method
    Lab reports (30%) and oral exam (70%), A-F.

    Oral exam Grading: Letter grades Written hand-in Grading: Letter grades
  • Examiner scheme
    An evaluator will approve the exam questions and contribute to the appraisal of examination papers
  • Mandatory activity
    Practical excercise. Submission of journal.
  • Teaching hours
    2 hours per week, altogether approx. 30 hours.
  • Admission requirements
    Special requirements in Science