Syllabus
1. Introduction - angiosperm plants and their sexual and asexual reproduction
2. Sexual plant reproduction: allogamy versus autogamy, distribution of these features among angiosperm lineages
3. Gene flow witihn and across populations
4. Flowers - structure and function, variation and evolution of flower types in relation to reproduction systems
5. Flowering - spatial and temporal dynamics, phenology
6. Pollination - diversity of pollinating systems, different types of pollinators
7. Pollination at the level of plant communities
8. Pollination trends in bioms - variation at the global level in relation to ecological factors
9. Apomixis - frequently occuring asexual reproduction in angiosperm plants
10. Vegetative reproduction in angiosperm plants
11. Synthesis The course is taught with the support of the project reg. number CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/16_015/0002362
Annotation
Students will learn about variation in breeding systems in vascular plants, methodological approaches for studying such variation and its evolutionary and ecological consequences. Each lecture will include an introduction to a specific topic following by student's presentation of selected scientific paper – a case study.