Rn NATURAL RESOURCES
Understanding of life at a cellular and subcellular level as well as individual, community and ecosystem levels. Familiarization with perpetuation, species and adaptive responses, and the influence of the external environment on them.
CAMPUS: OBRE, MTY & QRO
ACAD. PERIOD: SPRING & FALL
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: SPANISH
Rn00802. ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The student will be introduced to the basic principles of ecology and its relation to his/her field of study. Understanding the basic elements of sustainable development from an ecological, economic, social and cultural perspective is also expected. Introduction to the following: an historical review of organic evolution; the evolution and cultural development of humans as well as their influence on ecological issues. Theories of environmental science. Dynamics of a population's growth and control. Resources: 1) mineral deposits, bodies of water and hydrological cycles, biotic resources; 2) agriculture and other food production systems, and non-nutritional products. Contamination: origins, consequences and control. Sustainable development.
CAMPUS: ALL CAMPUSES
ACAD. PERIOD: SPRING & FALL
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: SPANISH
Genetics and its goals. DNA, a substance of genetic inheritance. Sexual and artificial reproduction. Mandelian heritage. Genetic behavior. Hereditary transmission of sex and citoplasmic transmission. Linked genes and chromosomic mapping. Alteration in physique and chromosome number. Mutations. Principles of genetic populations. Textbook: Francisco Ayala, Genética Moderna, Fondo educativo Interamericano, 1984.
CAMPUS: MTY & QRO
ACAD. PERIOD: SPRING & FALL
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: SPANISH
Rn00843. PLANT AND ANIMAL HEALTH WORKSHOP
"To distinguish and to recognize the representative organisms of the
different biological taxonomy that constitute
limit in the agricultural and cattle production, harming with their activity
the health of the cultivated plants and the
domestic animals. To exemplify with select cases each one of the representative
groups of problems of plagues and
illnesses of the cultivated plants and the domestic animals. To discuss with
technical precision aspects in biology,
behavior and type of damage in the selected organisms to exemplify fito-sanitary
and zoo-sanitary problems. "
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: SPANISH
Water transportation: hydric power and its components. Basic elements in the metabolism of a plant: proteins and enzymes, and photosynthesis (C3,C4 and CAM plants). Respiration methods. Metabolism of lipids. Regulation physiology: hormones and phytoregulators. Functional anatomy of each physiology method. Textbook: G.M. Rojas, Fisiología Vegetal, Salisbury and Ross, Plant Physiology, 4th edition.
CAMPUS: MTY & QRO
ACAD. PERIOD: SPRING & FALL
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: SPANISH
Rn00851. PLANTS HEALTH WORKSHOP I
Highlights the importance of members of the anthropoid filum and weed as a phytosanitary problems and limitations of vegetable production systems through the study of the co-evolution of these two groups; the usefulness of their morfo-physiological and ethnological characteristics for their recognition and control. This course emphasizes different options on the market and their corresponding regulations, particularly in using limited amounts of pesticides. Textbook: G.N. Agrios, Plant Pathology, A.C. Press, 3rd edition, New York, U.S.A., 1988.
CAMPUS: MTY & QRO
ACAD. PERIOD: SPRING & FALL
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: SPANISH
Rn00852. PLANTS HEALTH WORKSHOP II
Highlights the importance of different groups of phytopathogenes such as fungi, bacteria, microplasms, viruses, viroids, nematodes, and protozoa. Analyzes different abiotic elements such as phytosanitary problems and limitations of vegetable growth systems through morfo-physiological and ethological characteristics for their recognition and control. This course emphasizes different options on the market and their corresponding regulations, particularly in using limited amounts of agrochemicals. Textbooks: Anónimo, Growers Weed Identification Handbook, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Publication 4030, California, U.S.A., 1993. R.L. Metcalf, Destructive and Useful Insects: Their Habits & Control, McGraw-Hill, 5th edition, New York, U.S.A., 1992.
CAMPUS: MTY & QRO
ACAD. PERIOD: SPRING & FALL
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: SPANISH
Rn00853. PLANT HEALTH WORKSHOP III
Identifying and quantifying the damages caused by different factors of phytosanitary problems. Establishment of systems for sampling and information research to determine economic damages in vegetable growth systems. Combining and different strategies to combat these damages so that they result less harmful to the environment, optimize production and are likely to be extensively employed. Textbooks: B.G. Page, and W. T. Thomson, The Quick Guide: Insecticides, Herbicides, Fungicides, Thomson Publications, California, U.S.A., 1992. Publication by the University of California for diverse plant pathologies, titled: Integrated Pest Management for Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, California, U.S.A.
CAMPUS: MTY & QRO
ACAD. PERIOD: SPRING & FALL
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: SPANISH
Rn00854. CROPS PHYSIOLOGY WORKSHOP
Growth and differentiation, vegetable development, flowering and fructification, photoperiod, thermoperiod, vernalization and dormancy. Stress physiology, temperature, salinity and droughts. Analysis different plant behavior in alternating conditions and their effect on the primary metabolism. Textbook: Garnets y Michell, Physiology of Crop Plants.
CAMPUS: MTY & QRO
ACAD. PERIOD: SPRING & FALL
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: SPANISH
Rn00855. BOTANY WORKSHOP
Concluding the course the student will be capable of: Collecting, to herborice,
and to handle key words to determine families,
genders, and species of plants of agricultural, cattle or forest interest, making
use of the knowledge acquired morphological.
Likewise he/she will be able to identify the main families of plants at first
sight for their distinctive characteristics in field.
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: SPANISH
Rn00871. FORAGE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Cultivated forages and agricultural regions in Mexico. Ecology of plant communities in ranges and native pasturelands. Forage management and production in ranges and pasturelands. Principles of range and pasture development and optimization. Irrigation and weather conditions. Weed control. Forage preservation. Systems for pasture growth. Cattle pasture in ranges and pastures. Textbook: Peter D. Walton, Production and Management of Cultivated Forrages, Prentice Hall, 1983. J. Holechek, R.D. Pieper and C.H. Herbel, Range Management Principles and Practices, Prentice Hall, 1990.
CAMPUS: MTY & QRO
ACAD. PERIOD: SPRING & FALL
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: SPANISH
Rn00872. AGRICULTURE INTERNSHIP
"The farming and animal husbandry residence provides the student with personal experience of living, performing, and the discipline of working in a company of agricultural or cattle full time job. "
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: SPANISH
Rn00881. FORESTRY
Forest resources; forest regions of Mexico; objectives of forest
management; principles and practices used for managing forest
ecosystems. Relations between different uses of forests and fauna,
fishing, recreation and pasturing. Forestry science. Basic elements
of forest legislation in Mexico. Control of lumbering and forest
fires. Textbook: Raymond A. Young and Ronald L. Giese, Introduction
to Forest Science, Wiley and Sons, 2nd ed., 1990.