Additional module information: Modulbeschreibung des Moduls Evolution and Diversity of Plant Vegetative Structures

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): 15

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After this course, students will have a better understanding of the evolution and diversity of the vegetative structures and growth forms of the main lineages of Land Plants, especially flowering plants.
Lectures will be uploaded for the students, and introduce them to plant development from the formation of the embryo up to the sexually mature 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 evolutionary tinkering and the significance of the difference between homology and parallelism or convergences, which drive and shape the diversity of vegetative structures and their ecological adaptions.
A written final exam will be held on the last Friday of the course block (14.11.2025).
Please do not hesitate to contact me directly by email (julien.bachelier@fu-berlin.de) to enquire about this course and request a copy of the syllabus and tentative schedule/time plan

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