Basic Practical Training from Botany

Major: Pharmacy, Industrial Pharmacy
Code of subject: 6.226.00.O.061
Credits: 3.00
Department: Technology of Biologically Active Substances, Pharmacy and Biotechnology
Lecturer: Associate Professor, Ph. D. Nataliya Stadnytska, Associate Professor, Ph. D. Olena Komarovska-Porohnyavec, Associate Professor, Ph. D. Diana Baranovych, Associate Professor, Ph. D. Romana Petrina
Semester: 5 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: • to know the basic principles and techniques of plants field research • to know the systematization, the main representatives of flora of different bioton of practical training area • to have skills set for gathering, fixing of botanical objects, preparing of collection and herbarium; • to have skill set for determining the medicinal plants belonging to the life-forms (grasses, shrubs, trees etc.) by the morphological signs, to the botanical taxonomic rank (series, family, genus, species); correctly to carry out recordі in a diary of field practice.
Required prior and related subjects: Prerequisites: Medical Botany, Latin Language Co-requisites: Pharmacognosy, Natural Raw Materials Preparation Technology, Phytotherapy.
Summary of the subject: Methodology of conservation of plant raw material. Making the specimens of morphological collections. Methods and techniques of plants herbarium making. Production Morphological collections preparing. Methods and techniques of plant raw material conservation using fixing liquids. Procurement of herbal raw materials. Plants, space and environment. Key elements of phytogeography. Key elements of phytoecology. Elements geobotany. Forests phytocenoses. Meadow phytocenosis. Phytocenoses of ponds and marshes. Weeds. Cultural plants of open ground. Houseplants. Botanical gardens. Plants protection. Rare, exotic, endemy, relics, endangered species, the Red book lists of plants.
Assessment methods and criteria: • oral interviews, workshops, project - 40 points. • final evaluation (control measure - examination), written-oral form – 60 points.
Recommended books: 1. Стадницька Н.Є., Комаровська-Порохнявець О.З., Баранович Д.Б., Гулько Р.М., Новіков В.П. Навчальна практика з ботаніки: навчально-методичний посібник для викладачів та студентів вищих навчальних зпкладів ІІІ-ІV рівнів акредитації.- Львів: Видавництво Львівської політехніки, 2015.- 108 с. 2. 3. Солодовниченко Н.М., Журавльов М.С., Ковальов В.М. Лікарська рослинна сировина та фітопрепарати. Харків, Вид-во НФАУ, 2001.