Unit SYSTEMATIC BOTANY AND GEOBOTANY
- Course
- Agricultural and environmental sciences
- Study-unit Code
- 80151606
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Domizia Donnini
- Teachers
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- Domizia Donnini
- Hours
- 54 ore - Domizia Donnini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline biologiche
- Academic discipline
- BIO/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Plant biodiversity and role of plants. Systematics and Taxonomy. Botanical nomenclature. Speciation and selection. Propagation and Reproduction. Living kingdoms: Monera, protists, fungi. Lichens. Kingdom plants: Bryophyta and Pteridophyta. Cormophytes: plant organs and metamorphosis. Spermatophytes: the seed. Gymnosperms. Angiosperms: Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons. Families and interesting plant species for agricultural, food and forestry, species identification, systematic and distribution in natural systems, semi-natural and cultivated.
- Reference texts
- Class notes and material provided by the teacher
1. PASQUA G., ABBATE G., FORNI C. - Botanica Generale e Diversità Vegetale. II edizione, Piccin. 2019
2. TRIPODI G. - Introduzione alla Botanica Sistematica. 2006
3. BARONI E.- Guida Botanica d'Italia. 1969 - Educational objectives
- The aim of the course is to transfer knowledge about the life kingdoms, from unicellular organisms to multicellular, the morphology and the organization of the structures, the metamorphosis and forms of reproduction, plant biodiversity, classification and distribution in natural and cultivated environments.
- Prerequisites
- Good knowledge of general botany is required
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized in lectures on the topics listed in the program, practical lessons aimed to the identification of plants by the use of the Botanical Guide and visit outdoors and on the creation of a herbarium
- Other information
- Preparation of the herbarium of about 30-40 species to be presented during the oral examination. Office hours: every Thursday from 10 to 12 am, on other days and times by appointment via email: domizia.donnini@unipg.it
For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or DSA visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Learning verification modality
- Oral examination by interview of about 30 minutes to verify the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired during the course, including the herbarium made by the student.
- Extended program
- The role of plant organisms, biodiversity and humans plant use.
Systematic botany: species, definition. Botanical nomenclature; Taxonomy: systematic categories and suffixes, Division, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Selection, new species, asexual propagation. Sexual reproduction, ontogenetic cycles.
Classification of kingdoms: Archea, Bacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia. Morphological, reproductive and ecological features of kingdom Bacteria (Cianobacteria) and the kingdom Protista.
Kingdom of Plantae. Pteridophyta and Bryophyta: ontogenetic cycle and morphological characteristics of the main species. APG Molecular Phylogenetic Classification.
Cormofite: organization and structure. Morphology of plant organs: the bud, the leaves, the root. Metamorphosis of the corm and adaptations to environmental factors. The Spermatophyta, character evolution, the seed classification.
The Gymnospermae: description, ecology, importance in terms of environment, agriculture and forestry and household food: Gingkoaceae, Taxodiaceae, Pinaceae and Cupressaceae. The Angiospermae: flowers and inflorescences, sexual reproduction, fruits, seeds. Dried fruits and fleshy fruit, aggregate and false fruits. Systematics of the Angiospermae.
Description, ecology, use, importance in terms of food, environment, agriculture and forestry of the following families: Fagaceae, Betulaceae, Corylaceae, Juglandaceae, Rosaceae, Brassicaceae, Moraceae, Oleaceae, Vitaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Lamiaceae, Fabaceae, Asteraceae, Solanaceae, Apiaceae, Poaceae, Liliaceae, Iridaceae, Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae, Arecaceae.
Mushroom Kingdom: observations vegetative apparatus, systems of nutrition, propagation and breeding, ontogenetic cycles. Saprophytic fungi, parasites and symbionts, mycorrhizae. Systematic division, their importance in the environment and nutrition, cultivation of fungi with particular reference to truffles and poisonous fungi.
Lichens: morphology, characteristics of the structure and functions in the environment, their role as biomarkers.
Elements of Geobotany: concept of flora and vegetation, biological and chorological forms, range, endemic species, biological and chorological spectra. Principles of the science of vegetation.
Detailed program of practical lessons
Use of keys analytical determination and identification of the principal botanical species.
Meaning, importance and techniques of herbarium preparation.
Identification of the main species of the families of Angiospermae using botanical guide.
Field trip to identificate the most important wild and cultivate Spermathophyta.