| Department of Ecology | |||
| Earliest Possible Year | 5 to 9 | ||
| Duration | 1 semester | ||
| Credits | 15 (ECTS) | ||
| Course Level | Joint BSc and MSc | ||
| Examination | practical-oral examination No aid allowed Description of Examination: 13-point scale, external examiner | ||
| Organisation of Teaching | Spring (4/4-05 - 3/6-05) Lectures, laboratory exercises, projects, and excursion(s) | ||
| Block Placement | outside schedule | ||
| Teaching Language | English may be conducted in Danish/Swedish | ||
| Optional Prerequisites | 120311 Genetics, Botany and Breeding of Horticultural Plants 055118 Botany for Landscape Architects, Basic 056121 Forestry Botany, Basic | ||
| Course Objectives | |||
| The course provides the students with:- an advanced botanical knowledge of selected plant families skills to identify and relate plants of horticultural importance the ability to use the correct scientific and local names of plants.- a basic biological insight into the evolutionary mechanisms responsible for plant speciation- a basic insight into the evolution of specific horticultural plants | |||
| Course Contents | |||
| Through extended systematics of horticultural plants in general supplemented with detailed knowledge for selected families/genera/species, the students will experience a full extent of biological diversity. The mechanisms responsible for this diversity, i.e. plant speciation, variation, and evolution will be presented. These theoretical aspects of speciation should be related to the selected families/genera/species resulting in a project report on origin and evolution.Making a personal herbarium gives the students the opportunity to work individually, and experience the pleasure of ultimate problem based learning. | |||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||
| The course will be centred on: . laboratory practicals with extended plant knowledge and systematics . laboratory group work with selected families/genera/species (students own choice,amounting to about 80 pages (e.g. 450 species)) . lectures on general speciation mechanisms . student presentations of the evolution of selected horticultural crops . making of a herbarium: 50 plants, minimum 25 cultivated plants . single or group project: origin and evolution of selected horticultural plants (to bechosen within the field of selected families) | |||
| Course Litterature | |||
| Walters, S.M. & al., 1984-2000. European Garden Flora. Vol. 1-6 (selected topics), Cambridge University PressSmart, J. & Simmonds, N.W., 1995. Evolution of Crop Plants. 2nd ed. Longman Sci.& Tech.Briggs, D. & Walters, S.M., 1997. Plant Variation and Evolution. 3rd. ed. Cambridge University Press | |||
| Course Coordinator | |||
| Marian Ørgaard, moe@life.ku.dk, Department of Agriculture and Ecology/Section of Botany, Phone: 35332816 Mats Gustafsson, Mats.Gustafsson@vv.slu.se, Department of Agricultural Sciences/DSH guests, Phone: 3528 Björn Salomon, bjorn.salomon@vv.slu.se, Department of Agricultural Sciences/DSH guests, Phone: 3528 Niels Jacobsen, nika@life.ku.dk, Department of Agriculture and Ecology/Section of Botany, Phone: 35332805 | |||
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| Study Committee DSH | |||
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