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Study Plan
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Laurea in Scienze e tecnologie viticole ed enologiche - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Plant biology and physiology - FISIOLOGIA VEGETALE (2015/2016)
Teaching code
4S02734
Credits
6
Coordinator
Not yet assigned
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
BIO/04 - PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
To show the organization of the course that includes this module, follow this link: Course organization
The teaching is organized as follows:
teoria
laboratorio [laboratorio 1 turno]
laboratorio [laboratorio 2 turno]
Learning outcomes
The course examines the principal physiological and molecular aspects of plant growth and development. The program includes water balance, xylematic and floematic transport, photosynthesis, biosynthesis and action of phytohormones, photomorphogenesis, abiotic stress, secondary metabolism. The objective of the course is the acquisition of the theoretical fundamentals of plant physiology relevant for viticulture.
Program
Water transport in plants: chemical properties of water, water and solute transport processes.
Water balance of plants: movement of water in the soil, water absorption by roots, water transport through the xylem, transpiration and stomatal movements, control of stomatal opening. Water stress: physiological responses to drought.
Photosynthesis: general concepts of light reactions and carbon reactions. Starch and sucrose synthesis. Translocation in the phloem: phloem loading and unloading, the sink-source concept, allocation and partitioning of phosynthates.
General concepts of genetic information, gene expression and signal transduction pathways in eukaryotes.
Photomorphogenesis: phytochrome, phytochrome responses, cellular and molecular mechanisms. Blu-light responses.
Phytohormones: biosynthesis, physiological effects and molecular modes of action of auxin, cytokinins, gibberellins, ethylene, abscisic acid , brassinosteroids, polyamines, jasmonic acid.
Molecular methods used in experimental plant physiology: isolation and purification of nucleic acids and proteins from plant cells and tissues; methods for gene expression analysis;genetic transformation of plants.
Laboratory
Use of reporter genes for gene expression analysis with particular attention to the study of regulatory regions and to the hormones distribution in response to different stimuli; Agrobacterium tumefaciens as natural genetic engineer: T-DNA transfer mechanism to plant cell; transgenic plants generation by Agrobacterium and biolistic methods. Genetic transformation of the model species Arabidopsis thaliana by floral dip.
Practical work
The effects of auxin on adventitious root formation. Histochemical assay of beta-glucoronidase activity on plants expressing reporter constructs for hormones sensitivity analyses.
Examination Methods
oral
