Unit AEROBIOLOGY
- Course
- Biology
- Study-unit Code
- A000865
- Curriculum
- Bionutrizionistico
- Teacher
- Emma Bricchi
- Teachers
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- Emma Bricchi
- Hours
- 42 ore - Emma Bricchi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2019/20
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- BIO/02
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- The atmosphere and aerobiological particles. Emission sources of aerobiological particles. Allergological implications. Aerobiological monitoring. Pollen morphology. Airborne pollen identification. Pollen viability tests.
- Reference texts
- - Books and material provided by the teacher
- Scientific literature, sitography.
- Atlas of arboreal and herbaceous airborne pollen (Bricchi. E, Mincigrucci G.) - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of anemophilous plants and their flowering periods. Identification of main airborne pollen. Knowledge of aerobiological monitoring tecniques and laboratory methods to test pollen viability.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of Botany and foundations of Plant Biodiversity.
- Teaching methods
- Theoretical lessons and practical training.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination.
- Extended program
- The atmosphere and aerobiological particles. Aerobiological particles size. Sources of emission of aerobiological particles. Reproductive structures of Fungi, Bryophyta and Pteridophyta. Mycrosporogenesis and pollen development in Spermatophyta.
Identification of arboreal, shrubs and herbaceous plants responsible of allergenic pollen release. Phenological phases and flowering periods. Diffusion and transport. Influence of climatic conditions. Indoor and outdoor effects on people, animals, plants and on artistic patrimony. Allergological implications particularly regarding pollinosis. New and emerging pollinosis (Corylus, Cupressus, Ambrosia ecc.). Pollinosis and relation with spontaneous and ornamental vegetation. Pollen Morphology and identification keys. Methods in aerobiological monitoring of airborne pollen and spores.
The treatment and analysis of pollen samples from aerospora. Pollen calendars of pollen Family, Genus, Species. Methods for pollen viability and differentiation study. Pollen bioindicators of air pollution and plant health and/or fitness.