- Docente: Stefano Del Duca
- Credits: 6
- SSD: BIO/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Technologies for conservation and restoration (cod. 8017)
Learning outcomes
Students will acquire the basic konwledge of plant biology and on the main plant organisms involved in biodeterioration of artworks. In details, students will be able to critically analyze and prepare istological sections.
Course contents
Principles and methods to study biology
Level of organization of living organisms
Taxonomy of living organisms
The cell- Procariotic cell- Eukariotic plant cell. Cell wall. Plastids. Vacuoles.
Plant tissues.Meristems. Tegumental tissue. Parenchymatic tissue. Mechanical tissue. Transport tissue. Secretory tissue.
Main prokariots involved in biodeterioration. Cyanobacyeria.
Eukariots: unicellular and pluricellular algae. (Chlorophyta, Bacillariophyta, Rodophyta).
Plant Organs. Root. Stem. Leaf
Reproduction.
Structural, functional and ecological characteristics of the main biodeteriogens
Fungi. Lichens. Briophyta. Tracheophyta.
Hints of metabolism.
Hints of biodeterioration phenomena in relation of plant materials used in artworks.
Paper and wood.
Readings/Bibliography
Caneva, Nugari, Salvadori, Biologia Vegetale per i beni culturali, Vol I (Biodeterioramento e conservazione). Ed. Nardini.
Speranza, Calzoni, Struttura delle piante in immagini. Ed.Zanichelli, Bologna, 1996
Teaching methods
Lectures and pratical activities in laboratory
Assessment methods
Oral
Teaching tools
Lectures with power point
Pratical laboratory activities with the use of optical microscopy.
Office hours
See the website of Stefano Del Duca