Teacher
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Battistelli Alberto
(syllabus)
Course: Botany and plant physiology Teacher Alberto Battistelli
Plants: diversity and role in ecosystems and agriculture Evolution and classification. The plant cells. Ontogenetic cycle and reproduction in plants Higher plant structure and tissues. Plant organs: the leaf, the stem, and the root. The seed. Practical activities: optical microscopy, leaves and floral components. Practical activities: agronomical experiments, crops structure, field analysis of physiological parameters. Biophysics and biochemistry of photosynthesis Structure and functions of the chloroplast. Light and photosynthesis. The solar radiations, the pigments and light absorption. Botany and Plant physiology TEacher: Alberto Battistelli The Calvin-Benson cycle. The photosynthetic product at the chloroplast level: starch synthesis. The photosynthetic products in the cytoplasm: the sucrose synthesis. Phloem transport, sink activity, starch, and sucrose catabolism, storage compound accumulation, source-sink relationships. Photosynthesis in the environment: structure of the photosynthetic apparatus and the role of environment (adaptation and acclimation to light, CO2, temperature, and water availability. C3, C4 and CAM photosynthetic metabolism. Plant and water relations. Plant respiration. Mineral nutrition. The hormone regulation of plant life. Light as a signal: photoreceptors, phytochrome, photomorphogenesis, photoperiodism. Seed physiology and germination.
(reference books)
1- Rascio Elementi di fisiologia vegetale. EDISES https://www.edises.it/docenti/rascio-elementi-di-fisiologia-vegetale.html
2- Ray F. Evert Susan E. Eichhorn La biologia delle piante di Raven. Zanichelli Settima edizione italiana condotta sull’ottava edizione americana https://staticmy.zanichelli.it/catalogo/assets/a05.9788808175045.pdf
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