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PLANT BIOLOGY
cod. 00624

Academic year 2018/19
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
- Enrico ROLLI
Academic discipline
Biologia farmaceutica (BIO/15)
Field
Discipline biologiche
Type of training activity
Basic
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
5 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN
lectures timetable unavailable
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Integrated course unit module: PLANT BIOLOGY - PHARMACOGNOSY

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Individuals autotrophic and heterotrophic.
taxonomy and nomenclature units. Systematics, taxonomy, identification.
Classifications: descriptive systems, morphological, phylogenetic.
Reproduction (asexual, sexual).

Mushrooms. Organization and main biological characteristics

The main divisions of the plant kingdom.
Prokaryotes, eukaryotes.
Thallophyte, cormophytes.

THE PLANT CELL
The plastids
Chloroplast: ultrastructure. Photosynthesis.
Chromoplasts.
Leucoplast.
The cell wall.
The middle lamella
pectic substances
The primary wall
Cellulose and hemicellulose
The secondary wall
plasmodesmata
Chemical modifications of the wall
Pharmaceutical importance Wall
the vacuole; vacuole functions
the vacuolar juice components
secondary metabolism production of active ingredients in medicinal plants.
meristematic tissue
tegumental tissues
medullary tissue
Conductors tissues
Mechanical tissue
segregatori tissues
ANATOMY OF THE PLANT
The different zones of the stem and root development
Anatomy of the stem
meristematic zone
the primary structure zone
transition from the primary to the secondary structure
secondary structure zone
The omoxilo wood and eteroxilo
Anatomy of root
anatomical differences between root and stem
The flower
Flower anatomy and pollination
The fruit
Anatomy of the main types of fruits
True fruits and false fruits
Leaf Anatomy
Transport solutions
mineral elements and their function in the plant
plant hormones
Tropisms and circadian rhythms

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