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Record Nr.

UNINA9910877887103321

Titolo

The evolution of plant form / / edited by Barbara A. Ambrose, Michael Purugganan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken [N.J.], : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

ISBN

1-118-25385-X

1-118-30588-4

1-299-15826-9

1-118-25388-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 p.)

Collana

Annual plant reviews ; ; v. 45

Altri autori (Persone)

AmbroseBarbara A

PuruggananMichael D

Disciplina

571.3/2

Soggetti

Plants - Evolution

Plant morphology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Phylogenetic analyses and morphological innovations in land plants / James A. Doyle -- The evolution of body form in bryophytes / Bernard Goffinet and William R. Buck -- The morphology and development of lycophytes / Barbara A. Ambrose -- Evolutionary morphology of ferns (monilophytes) / Harald Schneider -- Gymnosperms / Dennis Wm. Stevenson -- Identifying key features in the origin and early diversification of angiosperms / Paula J. Rudall -- Genomics, adaptation and the evolution of plant form / Kristen Shepard -- Comparative evolutionary genomics of land plants / Amy J. Litt -- Development and the evolution of plant form / Barbara A. Ambrose and Cristina Ferrandiz -- Development in the wild: phenotypic plasticity / Kathleen Donohue -- The evolution of plant form: a summary perspective / Michael D. Purugganan.

Sommario/riassunto

The Evolution of Plant Form, an exciting volume in Wiley-Blackwell's Annual plant Reviews, approaches the subject from a diversity of scientific perspectives, bringing together studies of genomics, palaeobotany, developmental genetics and ecological genetics. Written by many of the World's most widely recognised and respected



researchers and drawn together and edited by Professors Barbara Ambrose and Michael Purugganan, this exciting volume is an essential purchase for plant scientists, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, taxonomists, ecologists and population biologists. For librarie