PLANT BIOLOGY

Academic Year 2015/2016 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Alessia Restuccia
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: BIO/03 - Environmental and applied botany
Taught classes: 32 hours
Term / Semester:

Detailed Course Content

The prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell

The plant cell and life cycle patterns

Differentiation and function of tissues: meristematic and definitive tissues.

Differentiation and function of organs

Root: morphology, anatomy, modifications and adaptations to the environment

Shoot: morphology, anatomy, modifications and adaptations to the environment.

Leaf: morphology, anatomy, modifications and adaptations to the environment.

Evolution and systematic

Fungi: main features, reproduction, life cycle patterns and systematics (Chytridiomycota, Zygomycota, Ascomycota e Basidiomycota)

Bryophytes: main features, reproduction, life cycle patterns and systematics (Anthocerotophyta, Hepatophyta, Musci)

Tracheophytes: main features, reproduction, life cycle patterns and systematics of Pteridophytes

Spermatophyta: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms

main features, reproduction, life cycle patterns and systematics

Flower, Fruits and Seed


Textbook Information

1- Biologia delle piante – T.L. Rost, M.G. Barbour, C.R. Stocking, T.M. Murphy - Zanichelli

2- Biologia Vegetale – P. Pupillo, F. Cervone, M. Cresti, N. Rascio – Zanichelli

3- Biologia delle piante – P.H. Raven, R.F. Evert, S.E. Eichhorn - Zanichelli