Zusätzliche Modulinfos: Modulbeschreibung des Moduls Evolution and Diversity of Plant Vegetative Structures close

After this course, students will have a better understanding of the evolution and diversity of the vegeative structures and growth forms of the main lineages of Land Plants, especially flowering plants, Lectures will be recorded live online and uploaded for the students, and introduce to plant development from the formation of the embryo up to the sexually matuer plants in extant and extinct lineages of Land Plants. They will also be provided with a deeper understanding of the developmental mechanisms and constraints shaping the morphology of their vegetative structures and the anatomy of their tissues, and their functions. Importantly, students will learn how to disentangle the different processes and mechanisms, especially of evolutioanary tinkering and the significance of the difference between homology and parallelism or convergences, which drive and shape the diverstiy of vegetative structures and their ecological adaptions. close