Course: plant evolution

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Course title plant evolution
Course code BOT/HVR
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Poulíčková Aloisie, prof. RNDr. CSc.
  • Trávníček Bohumil, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Hradílek Zbyněk, RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Lebeda Aleš, prof. Ing. DrSc.
  • Mieslerová Barbora, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
In this course are the newest advances in evolutionary studies on evolution of plants presented. It includes algae, non-vascular and vascular plants. The following topics are discussed: Reproduction biology of algae, flagellate stage architecture, detail view on endosymbiotic hypothesis. Recent view on algal systematics. Recent view on evolution of bryophytes and ancient spermatophytes. Origin of the seed plants (spermatophytes). Main evolutionary trends within the seed plants. Homological structures and relationships among main groups of the seed plants. Origin of the flowering plants (magnoliophytes, angiosperms). Phylogenetic relationships among main groups of the flowering plants.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Projection (static, dynamic)
Learning outcomes
The course focuses on modern trends in plant phylogeny.
Student should be able to (after attending the course): - descibe opinions on evolution of terrestrial plants - resolve phylogentic relationships in vascular plants - explain major changes in modern Plant Systematics - demonstrate knowledge of the basic principles of cyanobacterial and algal phylogeny - explain evolution of organels (particularly chloroplast) - explain evolution in reproduchtion, monade architecture, cell wall - popsat základy fylogeneze řas a sinic - vysvětlit evoluci organel (zvláště chloroplastů) - vysvětlit evoluci reprodukčních mechanismů, monádní architektury, buněčné stěny
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark, Oral exam

discussion, couple of questions in extent of the lectures
Recommended literature
  • Buck W. R. & Goffinet B. (2000):. Morphology and classification of the Marchantiophyta. - In: Shaw A. J. & Goffinet B. [eds.] Bryophyte Biology, p. 21-70, Cambridge..
  • Crandall-Stotler B. & Stotler R. E. (2000):. Morphology and classification of mosses. - In: Shaw A. J. & Goffinet B. [eds.] Bryophyte Biology, p. 21-70, Cambridge..
  • Edwards D., Wellman C. H. & Axe L. (1998):. The fossil record of early land plants and interrelationships between primitive embryophytes: too litle and too late? - In: Bates J. W., Ashton N. W. & Duckett J. G. [eds.] Bryology for the twenty-first century, p. 15-43, Leeds..
  • Hoek, C. van den, Mann, D.G., Jahns, H.M. (1995):. Algae. An introduction to phycology. - Cambridge Univ. Press, 622 s. Bhattacharya, D. (ed.) 1997: Origins of algae and their Plastids. - 215 s- .
  • Judd W.S. (2002):. Plant Systematics. A phylogenetic approach. Ed. 2. - Sinauer Associates, Sunderland..
  • Mártonfi P. (2003):. Systematika cievnatých rastlín. - Univerzita P.J. Šafárika, Košice..
  • Simpson, M. G. (2006). Plant systematics. Elsevier Academic Press, Amsterdam.
  • Soltis D. E., Soltis P.S., Endress P.K. et Chase M.W. (2005):. Phylogeny and evolutiuon of Angiosperms. - Sinauer Associates, Sunderland..
  • Stewart W. N. & Rothwell G. W. (1993). Paleobotany and the evolution of plants, ed. 2.. Cambridge.


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