Università Roma Tre

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 DEPELOPMENT.

-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 lectures
- protocols used during the laboratory exercises

Lectures - BIODIVERSITY, SYSTEMATIC AND PHYLOGENESIS OF PLANTS. CONCEPT OF PLANT ORGANISM; PHYLOGENETIC SURVEY METHODS; CLASSIFICATION. PLANT DIVERSITY IN RELATION TO THEIR EVOLUTION: THE ORGANISATION OF VEGETAL STRUCTURES. PHOTOSYNTETIC BACTERIA AND CYANOBACTERIA. PHYLETIC LINES IN PROTOPHYTES AND IN UNICELLULAR PHOTOSYNTETIC ORGANISMS. FUNGI. LICHENS. MAIN ALGAE TAXA. BRIOPHYTES. VASCULAR PLANTS: PTERIDOPHYTES; GYMNOSPERMAE; ANGIOSPERMAE, WITH EXAMPLES OF FAMILIES. EVOLUTION OF ONTOGENETIC CYCLE FROM ALGAE TO FLOWER PLANTS.
Botany laboratory – Practice exercise related to the program held during lectures. In particular, exercises will be carried out on the following topics: Cells – cellular organelles, primary and secondary tissues, Organs (roots, steam, leaves), Flowers and Fruits, Identificaion of the main groups of vegetal organisms (cyanobacteria, algae, lichens, mosses, pteridofhytes, gymnospermae, angiospermae), methods for the preparation of the herbarium.

-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 lectures
- protocols used during the laboratory exercises