Duration
10h Th, 22h Pr
Number of credits
| Bachelor in bioengineering | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
- Main principles and arguments of the classification of flowering plants
- Polarisation of traits : primitive and derived features in Angiosperms
- Milestones in the evolutionary history of flowering plants
- Description of the main families and taxa of flowering plants, from an agricultural and ecological perspective
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- To understand the objectives and the main principles of the classification of flowering plants
- To describe the main trends of the evolution of angiosperms
- To identify the main botanical families of our regions and/or cultivated, on the basis of their general features
- To situate the main families of angiosperms within the overall diversity of the group, from an phylogenetic perspective
- To use a reference flora and acquire the botanical vocabulary
- To make an herbarium, complying to imposed rules and developing skills to observe plants in their environments
- To recognize at first glance taxa of interest in agriculture, forestry, ecology, and assign them to the correct classification units (with families as a priority)
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Botanique - organisation des plantes à graines (BOTA0412-1)
Botanique - diversité et évolution des végétaux (BOTA0413-1)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- Lectures ex cathedra (5 X 2h)
- Laboratory exercices : thematic sessions (4 X 2h)
- Laboratory exercices: sessions for the determination of plants from herbariums using the reference flora.
- Excursion : discovering the flora of the campus of Gembloux
- Individual work: making of an herbarium
- Online training for the instant recognition of taxa, using a numeric image bank on the web platform of the course
- Observation of the Botanic Garden of the campus, following of the Facebook page dedicated to the garden
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face activities in auditorium and in laboratory, individual work in the field, training activities online
Recommended or required readings
- Syllabus available on line
- Mandatory use of the reference flora:
- Further reading, not mandatory (NB: all titles are available in english):
Raven P.H., Evert R.F., Eichhorn S.E. (2014). Biologie végétale. 3ème éd. française. De Boeck Supérieur, Bruxelles.
Spichiger R. E., Savolainen V. V., Figeat M., Jeanmonod D. (2004). Botanique systématique des plantes à fleurs (troisième édition revue et corrigée). Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne
Any session :
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND oral exam
- Remote
written exam
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred in-person
Additional information:
- Herbarium deposited and evaluated, containing 40 plant taxa
- Identification of Angiosperm taxa on pictures and on living materials.
- Evaluation of the knowledge of botanical families (written or oral test).
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Unless stated otherwise by a notice posted on the web platform of the course by the responsible professor, the presence at all laboratory courses is mandatory ; any unjustified absence may give rise to a penalty at the examination.
Contacts
Prof. Patrick du Jardin, Laboratoire de Biologie végétale, Université de Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, 2 Passage des Déportés, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgique. Tel +32(0)81622456, Patrick.duJardin@uliege.be http://www.gembloux.ulg.ac.be/biologie-vegetale