UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN MARINE SCIENCE
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester III - Paper III - Marine Flora

Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Unit I

Classification of marine flora - Marine Environment: Marine flora - Bacteria, Fungi, Diatoms, Flowering Plants - Chrysophyta, Cyanophyta, Chlorophyta, Pyrrophyta - Factors affecting marine life.

Unit II

Benthic Phycoflora: Blue green algae - Cyanophyta, Green algae (Chiorophyta) - Brown-algae (Phaeophyta) and Red algae (Rhodophyta) - History and study of Sea weeds - Ecology and Geographic distribution of marine flora - Marine environment, zonation, stratification, geographic distributions.

Unit III

Mangrove associations: Distribution of mangrove plants - Nutrient cycling, ecological significance of mangroves, mangrove interactions.

Unit IV

Calcareous algae and Fossils: Diversity of calcareous marine algae - Chlorophyta, Phaeophyta, Rhodophyta - Fossil algae.

Unit V

Gondwana flora and their distribution in India.

Books Recommended

Studies in Cryptogamic Botany - Vol III by M.R. Vijayaraghavan and Inderdeep Kaur, APFI Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, 1997.

Studies in Cryptogamic Botany - Vol II by M.R. Vijayaraghavan and Bela Bhatia, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi.

Cyanophyta by T.V. Desikachary, IARI, New Delhi, 1959.

Properties and products of Algae by J.E. Zajic, Plenum Press, New York, 1970.

Paleobotany by Arnold.