Professor Warren Abrahamson
Biology Building 308/309
Phone: 570 577-1155
abrahmsn@bucknell.edu
| BI 330/630 | Fall 1999 |
PLANT SYSTEMATICS
LECTURE OUTLINE
TUESDAY & THURSDAY
11-12
BB005B
| Approx. Lecture Dates | Read Walters and Keil Chapter | ||
| I. | Overview of Systematic Botany | Aug. 26 | 1 |
| II. | Botanical Terminology - vegetative organs - reproductive organs - modifications to reproductive organs - fruits, seeds, and dispersal |
Aug. 31 - Sept. 2 | 3, 10 |
| III. | Botanical Nomenclature - scientific versus colloquial names - origin of plant names - international code of botanical nomenclature |
Sept. 7 - 9 | 2 |
| IV. | Classification of Plants - current classification systems - primitive and derived groups |
Sept. 14 - 16 | 4, 5, 21, 22, 23, 26 |
| Special Lecture -- Dr. Shellee Morehead, Burpee Postdoctoral Fellow, "Host-specificity in Dipteran parasitoids of tropical ants," 4 PM, Rooke 116 | Sept. 17 | ||
| V. | Biosystematic Methods - genetics - cytology - chemistry - statistics |
Sept. 21 - 28 | 24, 25 |
| VI. | Phylogeny - phenetics - cladistics |
Sept. 30 - Oct. 21 | 7, 10 (see also 9) |
| Midterm Examination | Oct. 7 | ||
| Special Lecture -- Dr. Claude de Pamphilis, Penn State University, "Molecular evolutionary biology of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic plants," 4 PM, Rooke 116 | Oct. 22 | ||
| VII. | The Evolutionary Process - origin of plants - evolution of flowers, fruits, and vegetative organs - plant speciation - species concepts - plant isolating mechanisms |
Oct. 26 - Nov. 16 | |
| VIII. | Agricultural Uses of Plants - new hope for old plants - hopeful prospects - human culture and plants |
Nov. 18 - 30 | |
| IX. | Trends in Plants of Isolated Populations - insular woodiness - loss of dispersibility - gigantism - dwarfism |
Dec. 2- 7 |