PLANT BIOLOGY
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° YearCredit Value: 6
Scientific field: BIO/03 - Environmental and applied botany
Course Language: Italian
Taught classes: 28 hours
Exercise: 28 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Learning Objectives
The objective of the course is to provaide the students a adequate background knowledge about the structure and organization of vegetable orgamisms as necessary tools for the plants identification, as well as the location of autotrophic organisms in an ecosystemic context
Course Structure
Lectures in the classroom and field exercises like laboratories
Detailed Course Content
The plant cell (cell wall: structure and function; vacuoles: structure and function; plastids: structure and function; plasmodesmata). Plant tissues: differentiation and function of plant tissues. Plant organs: structure and function of the root, stem, leaf; structure and function of flowers, fruits, seed. Photosynthesis and transpiration. Reproduction. bryophytes. Tracheophyta: morphology, reproduction and biological cycles of Pteridophyta. Spermatophytes: Gymnosperms: general information on the vegetative apparatus, reproductive organs, reproduction and biological cycle; Angiosperms: general information on the vegetative apparatus, reproductive organs, reproduction and biological cycle.
Textbook Information
Biologia delle piante – T.L. Rost, M.G. Barbour, C.R. Stocking, T.M. Murphy – Zanichelli
Biologia delle piante – P.H. Raven, R.F. Evert, S.E. Eichhorn - Zanichelli