78819 - Environmental Botany

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Moduli: Luigi Parrotta (Modulo 1) Chiara Suanno (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Health Professions of Prevention Sciences (cod. 8878)

Learning outcomes

The student acquires the elements of environmental and applied botany or the distribution, adaptive strategies, use of resources, relationships with the environment of living prokaryotes and photosynthetic eukaryotes and mushrooms; can use the different approaches of botany, phytogeography, plant ecology, aerobiology, applied plant biology and ecology

Course contents

The program aims to acquire basic scientific concepts of Environmental Botany, selected on the basis of their relevance in the context of the urban environment, both in open and confined environments. Among these, the awareness of the existence of a complex and ecosystemic nature, highlighted by the interdependence relationships between living beings and the chemical-physical environment; in addition, aerobiological knowledge and skills and study tools for aerobiological monitoring will be acquired.
In detail, the program will cover the following topics:
aerobiologia
Pollen
Allergenic plants
Urban green
Phytodepuration of air and water
Immunogenic vegetable reserve proteins: gluten
Notes on secondary metabolites
Revision of plant cytology with particular emphasis on the wall and vacuole
Prerequisites: knowledge of the topics covered in the chemistry and biology courses of the secondary school.

Readings/Bibliography

The teaching material used for the lessons, as well as articles, book chapters and other materials from the specialist literature will be provided during the course by the teacher and / or deposited on the Moodle platform.
Suggested reference texts:

  1. Interazioni Piante e ambiente, Ed PICCIN
  2. Botanica, Ed. Idelson Gnocchi

Any further references will be discussed with the students.

Teaching methods

Frontal and dialogue lessons supported by presentations (ppt) with diagrams and graphic illustrations.

Assessment methods

The learning verification takes place through the evaluation of a oral discussion on some topics with questions to ascertain the basic knowledge (as per the program). The reflexive and integration skills of knowledge themselves, the ability to organize and transmit knowledge will be assessed; critical reasoning skills.

Office hours

See the website of Luigi Parrotta

See the website of Chiara Suanno