PLANT BIOLOGY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2013/2014

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in BIOTECHNOLOGY

Segments:

PLANT BIOLOGY

4 credits
PLANT BIOLOGY

1 credits
PLANT BIOLOGY

1 credits

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

ALBANI Diego Maria

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

The enrolment at the course requires a basic knowledge of General and Organic Chemistry

AF code:

10D70500

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

The students will be assessed through a final written test and/or oral exam

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

The course will impart the basic knowledge concerning the structure and the physiology of higher plants. Students will learn the features and functions of plant cells, tissues and organs, and the peculiarities of plant development and growth. Students will acquire the capacity to differentiate, understand and describe anatomic features of higher plants, and will learn how to set up simple plant explants for examination by microscopy.

Contents

Elements of plant citology. Membranes, nucleus, mitochondria, ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, cytoskeleton. Cell wall and its modifications. Plasmodesmata. Plastids. Vacuole.
Primary and secondary meristems. Parenchymatic, tegumental, mechanical, conductive and secretory tissues.
Primary and secondary structure of stems, leaves and roots with their modifications.
Elements of bioenergetics. Chemical and electrochemical potential. Photosynthesis: capture of solar energy and carbon organication. Photorespiration. Plants C4 and CAM. Translocation of organic compounds.
Physical and chemical properties of water. Water potential and water trasport.
Plant ormones: auxins, gibberellins, cytokinins, ethylene, abscisic acid.
Phytochromes.

Recommended Bibliography

C. Longo, G. Marziani - Biologia delle Piante. Forme e Funzioni Elementari. Ed. UTET, 2005.
T.L. Rost, M.G. Barbour, R.C. Stocking, T.M. Murphy - Biologia delle piante. Ed. Zanichelli, 2008.
K.R. Stern, J.E. Bidlack, S.H. Jansky - Introduzione alla biologia vegetale. Ed. McGraw-Hill, 2009.

Teaching Methods

LECTURES. Description of the topics of the course
PRACTICAL LABORATORIES. Use of optical microscopes. Preparation of plant explants suitable for examination by microscopy. Observation of characteristic features of plant cells: vacuoles, chloroplasts, chromoplasts, amyloplasts. Observation of leaf epidermal tissues and plant tissues in sections of stems, roots and leaves.

Contacts/More Information

1) Readiness to offer individual assistance also in English language to incoming students
2) Availability of supporting material and bibliographic references also in english language. NO
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3) Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language (English)

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