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
- 60 ore - Domizia Donnini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2017/18
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline biologiche
- Sector
- 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, semi-natural and cultivated systems.
- 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. 2011
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.
The main knowledge acquired will cover:
- the most important cultivated food species
- the toxic and/or poisonous species
- the aromatic species
- the reproductive cycles
- the mode of propagation of the species
- the distribution of the main food species
- the taxonomy of the food species
- the origin of the major processed food products
- the plant biodiversity
Knowledge acquired can be applied to achieve various capacities:
Identify the botanical species
Identify the various types of fruits
Distinguish the different plant structures
Identify the origin of plant structures metamorphosed to adapt
Build a herbarium
Analyze the plant component in an environment
Link up with other professionals to work in the field - Prerequisites
- Knowledge of General Botany
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized in classroom lectures on the topics listed in the program (52 hours), practical lessons aimed to the identification of plants by the use of the Botanical Guide and on the preparation of a herbarium (2 hours per 4 rounds).
- Other information
- Preparation of the herbarium of about 30-40 species to be presented during the assessment of the learning
- Learning verification modality
- oral assessment with herbarium
- 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, mitosis and meiosis, ontogenetic cycles.
Classification of kingdoms: Monera, Protisti, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia. Morphological, reproductive and ecological features of kingdom Monera and the kingdom Protista. Pteridophyta and Bryophyta: ontogenetic cycle and morphological characteristics of the main species.
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, microsporogenesis and macrosporogenesis, double fertilization, 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, Cruciferae, Oleaceae, Vitaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Labiatae, Leguminosae, Compositae, Solanaceae, Umbelliferae, Gramineae, Liliaceae, Iridaceae, Amaryllidaceae. 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. Description of the structure of the Gymnospermae 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.