PLANT BIOLOGY

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

Lectures in the classroom and laboratories

As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline.
It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professors Giovanna Tropea Garzia and Anna De Angelis.

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.

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