- Docente: Giulia Vannoni
- Credits: 5
- SSD: BIO/15
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: Long cycle 2nd degree programme in Pharmacy (cod. 0040)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to give a basic knowledge concerning the organization of higher plants at cellular and morphological level, and the basic principles which regulate their developement.
Course contents
The main division of the plant kingdom: procaryotes and eucaryotes. Thallophytes and cormophytes. Autotrophic and heterotrophic metabolism.
The photosynthesis: the role of the light and Calvin cycle.
The main components of the plant cell. Vacuole and secondary metabolites. The cell wall: apoplast and symplast. Plastids.
The organization of plant tissues: meristems, primary and secondary adult tissues. Phloem and xylem.
Herbaceus and arboreous primary stem; crybro-vascular bundles. Stem morphology. Secondary growth of the stem. Secondary wood of Gymnosperms and Dicotyledons.
The anatonic structure of a leaf.
The anatonic structure of a root. Primary and secondary roots. The secondary root formation.
The reproduction. The alternation of generations. Flowers, pollination and fertilization.
The developement of the seed and of the fruit.
Readings/Bibliography
A. Speranza -
G.L. Calzoni, Struttura delle piante in immagini,
Zanichelli, 1996
F. Senatore, Biologia vegetale e botanica farmaceutica,
Piccin, 2005
J. D. Mauseth, Botanica parte generale, II edizione
italiana, Idelson-Gnocchi, 2006
Kingsley R. Stern - James E. Bidlack - Shelley H. Jansky, Introduzione alla biologia vegetale, McGraw-Hill, 2008
Office hours
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