Plant diversity and evolution : genotypic and phenotypic variation in higher plants /

• Main Author: Henry, Robert J., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2005.
• Subjects: Plants > Evolution.; Plant diversity.; Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Ecology.; Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Taxonomy and Evolution.; Angiosperms.; Gymnosperms.; Cell walls.; Chloroplast genetics.; Domestication.; Evolution.; Flowers.; Genetic variation.; Genomes.; Metabolism.; Mitochondrial genetics.; Phenotypic variation.; Plant ecology.; Polyploidy.; Population genetics.; Secondary metabolites.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 15 chapters that review the aspects of plant evolution as it relates to variation in plant genomes (gene level) and associated variations in plant phenomes (trait level). Topics covered include chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes, reticulate evolution, polyploidy, population gen...

Table of Contents:

• Importance of plant diversity / Robert J. Henry
• Relationships between the families of flowering plants / Mark Chase
• Diversity and evolution of gymnosperms / Ken Hill
• Chloroplast genomes of plants / Linda A. Raubeson and Robert K. Jansen
• The mitochondrial genome of higher plants : a target for natural adaptation / Sally A. Mackenzie
• Reticulate evolution in higher plants / Gay McKinnon
• Polyploidy and evolution in plants / Jonathan Wendel and Jeff Doyle
• Crucifer evolution in the post-genomic era / Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz, Marcus A. Koch and Tim F. Sharbel
• Genetic variation in plant populations : assessing cause and pattern / David J. Coates and Margaret Byrne
• Evolution of the flower / Douglas E. Soltis, Victor A. Albert, Sangtae Kim, Mi-Jeong Yoo, Pamela S. Soltis, Michael W. Frohlich, James Leebens-Mack, Hongzhi Kong, Kerr Wall, Claude dePamphilis and Hong Ma
• Diversity in plant cell walls / Philip J. Harris
• Diversity in secondary metabolism in plants / Peter G. Waterman
• Ecological importance of species diversity / Carl Beierkuhnlein and Anke Jentsch
• Genomic diversity in nature and domestication / Eviatar Nevo
• Conserving genetic diversity in plants of environmental, social or economic importance / Robert J. Henry.