- Docente: Luisa Forlani
- Credits: 3
- SSD: BIO/15
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Scientific Information on Pharmaceutical Products (cod. 0037)
Learning outcomes
This teaching aims to provide the basics of plant biology (cell, tissues, organs) and, furthermore, outlines of systematic, concerning the main officinal plants and their employment.
Course contents
INTRODUCTION
Classification of living creatures : Prokaryots and Eukaryots. Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia.
Classification of vegetals : Thallophyte and Cormophyte. Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta (Gymnosperms and Angiosperms).
Importance of vegetals.
CYTOLOGY
Cellular theory. Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell. Vegetal eukaryotic cell : shapes, sizes and compartmentalizations. Cell wall in Plants : structure and functions; middle lamella, primary wall, secondary wall; secondary modifications of wall. System of vacuoles : structure and functions; including solids and products of secondary metabolism. Plastids : types and functions. Chloroplasts, Chromoplasts, Leucoplasts. Primary and secondary starch. Starches of F.U.I.
HISTOLOGY
Colonies, pseudo-tissues, tissues. Meristematic tissues; dermic tissues; parenchymatic tissues; mechanical tissues; secreting tissues.
ORGANOGRAPHY
The whole plant; herbaceous planta, woody plants (trees and shrubs); vital cycle of plants.
Root, Stem and Leaves : functions, external organization and anatomy.
Flowers, Fruits and Seed.
Plants of the Farmacopea Ufficiale Italiana (Italian Official Pharmacopoeia).
MONOGRAPHS :
A plant's essay.
Readings/Bibliography
TEXTS/BIBLIOGRAPHY
VENTURELLI F. and VIRLI L., 1995 – Invito alla Botanica. Ed. Zanichelli
Teaching methods
The course will be integrated with exercises in lab aiming to provide informations for recognizing the main vegetal structures and with visits to the Botanical Garden aiming to recognize some of the main plants pharmaceutical interesting.
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
Teaching tools
PC, overhead projector, labs with one-seat optical microscopes .
Office hours
See the website of Luisa Forlani