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

• Autore: Cronk Q. C. B
• Pubblicazione: Ottawa, : NRC Research Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (173 p.)
• Disciplina: 581.70285
• Soggetto topico: Plants; Molecular genetics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ReeR. H WhittonJ
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Plant Adaptation : Molecular Genetics and Ecology
• ISBN: 1-280-45221-8; 9786610452217; 0-660-19337-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457959703321
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