Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants

Herausgegeben von Iwatsuki, Kunio; Raven, Peter H.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A modern approach to understanding the evolution and diversification of land plants, one of the most exciting areas of plant systematics. It consists of three sections - origin and diversification of primitive land plants; origin and diversification of angiosperms; speciation and mechanisms of diversification - each section corresponding to a major area in plant evolution. In each case, data from molecular, morphological, and paleontological approaches are presented, backed by recent progress and new findings, together with proposals for future research. A guide to the latest in plant systematics, heightening awareness of prospective future problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• 1997.
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9784431702030
• ISBN-10: 4431702032
• Artikelnr.: 29935312

Autorenporträt

Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., is director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Engelmann professor of botany at Washington University at St. Louis. He oversees the garden's internationally recognized research program in tropical botany--one of the world's most active in the study and conservation of imperiled tropical habitats. Raven's botanical research and work in the area of tropical conservation have earned him numerous honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship. He has written 17 textbooks and more than 400 articles, and he is a member of th National Academy of Science and the National Research Council.

Inhaltsangabe

Origin and Diversification of Primitive Land Plants.- 1. Charting Diversity in Early Land Plants: Some Challenges for the Next Millennium.- 2. Morphological Diversity and Evolution of Vegetative Organs in Pteridophytes.- 3. RNA Editing in Land Plants.- 4. Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Some Conifer Families: Role and Significance of Permineralized Cone Records.- Origin and Diversification of Angiosperms.- 5. Evolutionary Biology of Flowers: Prospects for the Next Century.- 6. Fossil History of Magnoliid Angiosperms.- 7. Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships Among Angiosperms: An Overview Based on rbcL and 18S rDNA Sequences.- 8. Evolution of MADS Gene Family in Plants.- 9. Palynological Approaches to the Origin and Early Diversification of Angiosperms.- 10. Chromosomal Evolution of Angiosperms.- Speciation and Mechanisms of Diversification.- 11. Mating Systems and Evolution in Flowering Plants.- 12. Plant Speciation on Oceanic Islands.- 13. Relations of Environmental Change to Angiosperm Evolution During the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary.- 14. Modes and Mechanisms of Speciation in Pteridophytes.- 15. Speciation and Morphological Evolution in Rheophytes.