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Title Early events in monocot evolution / edited by Paul Wilkin and Simon J. Mayo.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 361 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series The Systematics Association special volume ; 83
Systematics Association special volume ; no. 83.
Note Based on a conference held in London at the Linnean Society and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, July 20-22, 2010.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary Leading scientists in the field trace the evolution of the one of the most ancient major branches of flowering plants.
Contents 1. A well-supported phylogenetic framework for the monocot order Alismatales reveals multiple losses of the plastid NADH dehydrogenase complex and a strong long-branch effect / W.J.D. Iles, S.Y. Smith and S.W. Graham -- 2. The fossil record of non-commelinid monocots / S.Y. Smith -- 3. Is syncarpy an ancestral condition in monocots and core eudicots? / D.D. Sokoloff, M.V. Remizowa and P.J. Rudall -- 4. Diversification of pollen and tapetum in early-divergent monocots / C.A. Furness -- 5. Macroecological correlates of global monocot species richness / F.A. Jones, B. Sobkowiak, C.D.L. Orme, R. Govaerts and V. Savolainen -- 6. In time and with water ... the systematics of alismatid monocotyledons / D.H. Les and N.P. Tippery -- 7. Evolution of floral traits in relation to pollination mechanisms in Hydrocharitaceae / N. Tanaka, K. Uehara and J. Murata -- 8. Patterns of bract reduction in racemose inflorescences of early-divergent monocots / M.V. Remizowa, D.D. Sokoloff and P.J. Rudall -- 9. Recent progress in the phylogenetics and classification of the Araceae / S.J. Mayo, J. Bogner and N. Cusimano -- 10. The first evolutionary classification of the Araceae: A. Engler's natural system / S.J. Mayo and J. Bogner -- 11. Aroid floral morphogenesis in relation to phylogeny / D. Barabe -- 12. Some observations on the homology of the daffodil corona / R.W. Scotland -- 13. Anther, ovule and embryological characters in Velloziaceae in relation to the systematics of Pandanales / M.G. Sajo, R. Mello-Silva and P.J. Rudall -- 14. Contrasting patterns of support among plastid genes and genomes for major clades of the Monocotyledons / J.I. Davis, J.R. McNeal, C.F. Barrett, M.W. Chase, J.I. Cohen, M.R. Duvall, T.J. Givnish, S.W. Graham, G. Petersen, J.C. Pires, O. Seberg, D.W.M. Stevenson and J. Leebens-Mack.
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Subject Monocotyledons -- Congresses.
Monocotyledons.
Monocotyledons -- Evolution -- Congresses.
Monocotyledons -- Evolution.
Angiosperms -- Congresses.
Angiosperms.
Angiosperms -- Evolution -- Congresses.
Angiosperms -- Evolution.
Plants -- Congresses.
Plants.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Wilkin, Paul.
Mayo, S. J.
Other Form: Print version: Early events in monocot evolution. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107012769 (DLC) 2012046333 (OCoLC)827008054
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