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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784321803321

Autore

Cronk Q. C. B

Titolo

Plant Adaptation : Molecular Genetics and Ecology [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ottawa, : NRC Research Press, c2004

ISBN

1-280-45221-8

9786610452217

0-660-19337-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ReeR. H

WhittonJ

Disciplina

581.70285

Soggetti

Plants

Molecular genetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

INTRODUCTION: CONCEPTS IN PLANT ADAPTATION; 1 The new science of adaptation: an introduction; 2 Discussion report: an intellectual framework for a plant adaptation science; 3 Pathways to plant population genomics; 4 Evolvability and the raw materials for adaptation; 5 Nucleocytoplasmic incompatibility fosters speciation; 6 Discussion report: answered and unanswered questions in plant adaptation; APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF PLANT ADAPTATION; 7 Plant population genomics, linkage disequilibrium mapping, and the genetics of adaptation

8 Genomic approaches to identifying quantitative trait loci: lessons from Arabidopsis thaliana9 Experimental analysis of adaptive landscape topographies; 10 Terpene synthases and the mediation of plant-insect ecological interactions by terpenoids: a mini-review; 11 Adaptation in plant speciation: evidence for the role of selection in the evolution of isolating barriers between plant species; 12 Discussion report: New methods and tools for plant adaptation - what do we need?; TRAITS, POPULATIONS, AND SPECIES: CASE STUDIES IN PLANT ADAPTATION

13 Trends in the evolution of edaphic specialists with an example of parallel evolution in the Lasthenia californica complex14 Floral



adaptations and biotic and abiotic selection pressures; 15 Polyploidy and plant adaptation: a framework for future research; 16 Evolutionary genetics of self-incompatibility in a new "model" plant: Arabidopsis lyrata; 17 Natural variation among accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana: beyond the flowering date, what morphological traits are relevant to study adaptation?

18 The study of ancient adaptation: a case study of a phytochrome gene pair from early-diverging angiosperms19 The variable nature of herbivore defense: evidence for a rapidly diverging Kunitz trypsin inhibitor gene in Populus; List of participants; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Proceedings of an International Workshop sponsored by the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research held December 11-13, 2002 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.