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INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF BOTANY. THE FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANTS. PLANT CELLS; CELLULAR WALLS, VACUOLES. PLASTIDS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS. ONTOGENETICAL CYCLES AND REPRODUCTION. INTRODUCTION TO THE TAXONOMY. THALLUS AND CORMUS. MERISTEMS AND CELLULAR DIFFERANTIATION. DEFINITIVE TISSUES: PARENCHIMATIC, TEGUMENTAL, MECCANICAL, VASCULAR, AND SECRETORY TISSUES. PLANT ORGANS: ROOTS, STEM, LEAVES, FLOWERS, FRUITS, SEEDS- CHARACTERISTICS AND DEVELOPMENT.

RAVEN, EVERT, EICHHORN- BIOLOGIA DELLE PIANTE- ED. ZANICHELLI, VI ED. 2002.

Ray F Evert Susan E Eichhorn
Biologia delle piante di Raven
Settima edizione italiana condotta sull'ottava edizione americana
Trad. di A. Virzo, V. Vona, R. Castaldo, A. Basile, C. Rigano, D. Rigano, R. Nazzaro, P. Caputo, A. Pollio, G. Siniscalco Gigliano, V. Spagnuolo
2013

PASQUA. ABBATE, FORNI- BOTANICA GENERALE E DIVERSITÀ VEGETALE- ED. PICCIN, PADOVA. I ED. 2008

Frontal lessons - BIODIVERSITY, SYSTEMATIC AND PLANT EVOLUTION. THE PLANTS:THE EVOLUTION OF THIS IDEA. METHODS OF PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS THE CLASSIFICATION. THE PLANT DIVERSITY IN AN EVOUTIVE KEW: PHOTOSYNTHETIC BACTERIA ( CYANOBACTERIA). FUNGI. LICHENS. ALGAE. BRYOPHYTE. VASCULAR PLANTS: PTERYDOPHYTE; GYMNOSPERMS; ANGIOSPERMS, WITH SOME EXAMPLES AOF THE MAIN FAMILIES Ìthe ONTOGENETIC CYCLE AND ITS EVOLUTION, FROM ALGAE TO FANEROGAMS.

Botany Laboratory - Exercises related to the program carried out in the classroom during the frontal lessons. In particular exercises will be carried out on the following topics: Cells - cellular organelles, Primary and secondary tissues, Organs (roots, stem, leaves), Flowers and Fruits, Recognition of the main groups of plant organisms (cyanobacteria, algae, lichens, mosses, pteridophytes, gymnosperms, angiosperms), herbarium preparation procedures.

RAVEN, EVERT, EICHHORN- BIOLOGIA DELLE PIANTE- ED. ZANICHELLI, VI ED. 2002.
PASQUA. ABBATE, FORNI- BOTANICA GENERALE E DIVERSITÀ VEGETALE- ED. PICCIN, PADOVA. I ED. 2008.

Protocols adopted during the practice exercises

The teacher receives Mon, Wed, Fri from 9.00 to 10.00 by appointment via email: simona.ceschin@uniroma3.it

Vascular tissues and the Stele. The stem: morphological and functional features. The leaf: morphological and functional features.

-RAVEN, EVERT, EICHHORN- BIOLOGIA DELLE PIANTE- ED. ZANICHELLI, VI ED. 2002.

-PASQUA. ABBATE, FORNI- BOTANICA GENERALE E DIVERSITÀ VEGETALE- ED. PICCIN, PADOVA. I ED. 2008.

- pdf of the Powerpoints used during the frontal classes.


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