Identifying Data 2022/23
Subject (*) Plant Response to Adverse Conditions Code 610G02030
Study programme
Grao en Bioloxía
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Graduate 2nd four-month period
Fourth Optional 6
Language
Spanish
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Bioloxía
Coordinador
Bernal Pita da Veiga, María de los Ángeles
E-mail
angeles.bernal@udc.es
Lecturers
Bernal Pita da Veiga, María de los Ángeles
Carrillo Barral, Néstor
Diaz Varela, Jose
E-mail
angeles.bernal@udc.es
n.carrillo@udc.es
jose.diaz.varela@udc.es
Web
General description Concepto de estrés, fisiopatía e enfermidade. Estrés hídrico: encharcamiento e seca. Estrés
oxidativo. Estrés luminoso por exceso e defecto. Estrés por altas e baixas temperaturas. Estrés
por nutrientes minerais. Enfermidades das plantas. Tipos de patógenos. Patogénesis:
procesos de infección e colonización do patógeno. Defensa da planta e resistencia.
Fisioloxía da planta enferma. Pragas das plantas. Resposta aos herbívoros.

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A4 Obter, manexar, conservar e observar especímenes.
A9 Identificar e utilizar bioindicadores.
A10 Avaliar actividades metabólicas.
A11 Identificar e analizar material de orixe biolóxica e as súas anomalías.
A17 Realizar bioensaios e diagnósticos biolóxicos.
A19 Analizar e interpretar o comportamento dous seres vivos.
A26 Deseñar experimentos, obter información e interpretar os resultados.
A29 Impartir coñecementos de Bioloxía.
A30 Manexar adecuadamente instrumentación científica.
A31 Desenvolverse con seguridade nun laboratorio.
B1 Aprender a aprender.
B2 Resolver problemas de forma efectiva.
B3 Aplicar un pensamento crítico, lóxico e creativo.
B4 Traballar de forma autónoma con iniciativa.
B5 Traballar en colaboración.
B6 Organizar e planificar o traballo.
B7 Comunicarse de maneira efectiva nunha contorna de traballo.
B8 Sintetizar a información.
B9 Formarse unha opinión propia.
B10 Exercer a crítica científica.
B11 Debater en público.
B12 Adaptarse a novas situacións.
B13 Comportarse con ética e responsabilidade social como cidadán e como profesional.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
Comprise the different situations of stress to which can be subjected a plant in his natural environment and describe the different strategies in front of the same. A10
A19
A26
A30
A31
B1
B2
B3
B6
Know the most important characteristics of the pathogens of the plants. Know the mechanisms of attack of the pathogens. Know the mechanisms of defence of the plants. A4
A11
A17
A19
A26
A29
A30
A31
B1
B3
B4
B6
B8
Comprise the complexity of the interaction between plant and pathogen, very dynamic and in which they influence diverse factors. A11
A19
B1
B2
B3
B4
B8
Take consciousness of the economic and social importance of the knowledge and control of the illnesses of the plants. B9
B13
Be able to work in group for the preparation of a subject of answer of the plants to adverse conditions, and to expose it to the mates B5
B6
B7
B8
B9
B10
B11
B12
Be able to realise basic experimentation in the field of the physiology of the plants in adverse conditions A9
A10
A17
A26
A30
A31
B1
B2
B3
B4
B6

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Topic 1. Introduction: plant responses to adverse conditions.
Topic 2. Water stress and flooding.
Topic 3. Stress by light.
Topic 4. Stress by extreme temperatures.
Topic 5. Stress by nutrients.
Topic 6. Introduction to plant diseases and plant pathogens.
Topic 7. Pathogenesis: Processes of infection and colonization by pathogens.
Topic 8. Plant defense and resistance against pathogens.
Topic 9. Physiology of the diseased plant.
Topic 10. Plant pests and response to herbivores.
Different aspects of the proposed topics.
Practicals Practicals about the topics of the subject.

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Guest lecture / keynote speech B1 B9 B10 21 52.5 73.5
Seminar A9 A10 A11 A19 A26 A29 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 B11 B12 B13 7 28 35
Mixed objective/subjective test A4 A9 A10 A11 A17 A19 A26 A30 A31 4.5 0 4.5
Laboratory practice A17 A19 A26 14 21 35
 
Personalized attention 2 0 2
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech Oral exhibition of the subject complemented with presentations in Power Point, videos and/or diagrams of blackboard. During the development of the subject we make questions to the student so that thinking on them and oral response, previously to his explanation by the professor.
Seminar Technician of work in group that has like purpose the intensive study of a subject. It will realise in groups very reduced of 25 students
Mixed objective/subjective test It will consist of two parts, in which they will evaluate the knowledges purchased so many theorists like practical. The mixed proof can to include questions to develop, type test or problems
Laboratory practice Methodology that allows that the students learn sure enough through the realisation of activities of practical character, such like demonstrations, exercises, experiments and investigations.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Seminar
Description
The students, in groups of 25, will gather with the teacher for to preparation of a work of seminar. In schedule of tutorías, each student will be able to comment with the teacher the course of the work, as well as all the doubts that present him . For those students with official part-time dedication, the seminar sessions might be replaced by a written work, if the student requires it.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Seminar A9 A10 A11 A19 A26 A29 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 B11 B12 B13 The activities developed during the seminars will be evaluated of way contínua by the teacher. 30
Mixed objective/subjective test A4 A9 A10 A11 A17 A19 A26 A30 A31 Probe of the theoretical and practical knowledges.
55% theorist.
20% practical.
70
 
Assessment comments

To pass the subjet the students have to obtain at least 4 points in the mixed proof (and in each one of his two parts, theoretical and practical) and in seminars. The average of all the activities has to be as minimum of 5;If it resulted to be of 5 or more points, but obtained  less than 4 points in one of the parts of the mixed proof, the final note will be of 4,9 (fall). In the second opportunity (July), will realise  only the mixed proof, the qualifications obtained in the seminars keep  of the first opportunity. They will be considered like NON PRESENTED those students that no present to the mixed proofs.

Attendance to practicals is compulsory. If a student does not attend to one or two sessions of the practicals, he/she will have a penalty of one and two points, respectively, to be substracted from the score of the “proba mixta”. If the student does not attend to three or more sessions of the practicals, he/she will get a fail as the final score in the course.

For those students with official part-time dedication and academic exemption , the seminar sessions might be replaced by a written work, if the student requires it.

The students with top marks in the first evaluation period (June) will have priority to achieve MATRÍCULA DE HONOR (qualification with Honors)

For to the students that request the ANNOUNCEMENT ADVANCED OF
DECEMBER, will apply  the rule, as which
rixe the educational guide of the course.

Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before
Plant Physiology I/610G02027
Plant Physiology II/610G02028
Applied Plant Physiology /610G02029

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus

Other comments
To help achieve an immediate sustainable environment and comply with point 6 of the "Environmental Declaration of the Faculty of Sciences (2020)", the documentary work carried out in this area will be mostly requested in virtual format and computer support.


(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.