Evolutionary Trends In Plants

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Botany
ISBN : UIUC:30112001362984

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Evolutionary Trends in Plants by Anonim Pdf

Author : Armen Leonovich Takhtadzhi͡an
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Angiosperms
ISBN : UCAL:B4519165

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Evolutionary Trends in Flowering Plants by Armen Leonovich Takhtadzhi͡an Pdf

Takhtajan, one of the foremost authorities on flowering plant evolution, has brought together from the literature and his own studies interpretations of the origin and evolution of various vegetative and reproductive parts of flowering plants. Starting with growth habit, he continues through leaf and stem structure, including the origin of vessels, sieve tubes, and rays, to flowers. After tracing the possible origin of the flower, he discusses in detail the sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels, accounting for their variations in number of parts, fusion, position, and structure. The evolution and origin of the micro- and megagametophytes and the development of triple fusion are considered. The book ends with the developmental sequence of the fruit and seed types. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. Takhtajan has produced a book that will be essential in the library of any college where plant evolution is considered.-C. T. Mason Jr., University of Arizona--Choice Reviews.

Author : Shoichi Kawano
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780323150743

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Biological Approaches and Evolutionary Trends in Plants by Shoichi Kawano Pdf

Biological Approaches and Evolutionary Trends in Plants is a collection of papers presented at the Fourth International Symposium of Plant Biosystematics held on July 10-14, 1989 in Kyoto, Japan. Contributors, some are world's leading plant biologists, discuss the findings in evolutionary biology and issues in plant biosystematics in light of the evidence and ideas brought forward at various levels of biological organization, from molecule to cell, individual, population, species, and community levels. This volume is organized into four sections encompassing 22 chapters and begins with an overview of discoveries concerning parapatric differentiation of weed populations, including adaptive evolution in herbicide resistant biotypes and complex evolutionary patterns in weed-crop complexes of various groups. The next section explores molecular approaches in plant biosystematics, focusing on amino acid sequencing of proteins; restriction-site variations of cpDNA, mitDNA, rDNA, etc.; and chromosome-banding patterns revealed by differential staining. The discussion shifts to a wave of research in plant population biology and evolutionary ecology since the 1970s and its impact on biology and biosystematics. The book considers various aspects of reproductive biology and evolutionary changes in significant reproductive parameters and attempts to demographically quantify these parameters. The final chapter is devoted to the use of functional phylogenetic systematics for predictive ecology. This book will be of interest to plant biologists and scientists and researchers in fields such as biochemistry, botany, microbiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.

Author : National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309070997

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Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms by National Academy of Sciences Pdf

"The present book is intended as a progress report on [the] synthetic approach to evolution as it applies to the plant kingdom." With this simple statement, G. Ledyard Stebbins formulated the objectives of Variation and Evolution in Plants, published in 1950, setting forth for plants what became known as the "synthetic theory of evolution" or "the modern synthesis." The pervading conceit of the book was the molding of Darwin's evolution by natural selection within the framework of rapidly advancing genetic knowledge. At the time, Variation and Evolution in Plants significantly extended the scope of the science of plants. Plants, with their unique genetic, physiological, and evolutionary features, had all but been left completely out of the synthesis until that point. Fifty years later, the National Academy of Sciences convened a colloquium to update the advances made by Stebbins. This collection of 17 papers marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Stebbins' classic. Organized into five sections, the book covers: early evolution and the origin of cells, virus and bacterial models, protoctist models, population variation, and trends and patterns in plant evolution.

Author : George Ledyard Stebbins
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015000389737

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Flowering Plants by George Ledyard Stebbins Pdf

Factors that determine evolutionary trends. Trends of angiosperm phylogeny.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8121102790

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Evolutionary Trends In Flowering Plants by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karl J. Niklas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226342283

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Plant Evolution by Karl J. Niklas Pdf

Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively make up the most morphologically, physiologically, and ecologically diverse group of organisms on earth, books on evolution instead tend to focus on animals. This organismal bias has led to an incomplete and often erroneous understanding of evolutionary theory. Because plants grow and reproduce differently than animals, they have evolved differently, and generally accepted evolutionary views—as, for example, the standard models of speciation—often fail to hold when applied to them. Tapping such wide-ranging topics as genetics, gene regulatory networks, phenotype mapping, and multicellularity, as well as paleobotany, Karl J. Niklas’s Plant Evolution offers fresh insight into these differences. Following up on his landmark book The Evolutionary Biology of Plants—in which he drew on cutting-edge computer simulations that used plants as models to illuminate key evolutionary theories—Niklas incorporates data from more than a decade of new research in the flourishing field of molecular biology, conveying not only why the study of evolution is so important, but also why the study of plants is essential to our understanding of evolutionary processes. Niklas shows us that investigating the intricacies of plant development, the diversification of early vascular land plants, and larger patterns in plant evolution is not just a botanical pursuit: it is vital to our comprehension of the history of all life on this green planet.

Author : Sébastien Patiny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139504072

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Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Relationships by Sébastien Patiny Pdf

What are the evolutionary mechanisms and ecological implications behind a pollinator choosing its favourite flower? Sixty-five million years of evolution has created the complex and integrated system which we see today and understanding the interactions involved is key to environmental sustainability. Examining pollination relationships from an evolutionary perspective, this book covers both botanical and zoological aspects. It addresses the puzzling question of co-speciation and co-evolution and the complexity of the relationships between plant and pollinator, the development of which is examined through the fossil record. Additional chapters are dedicated to the evolution of floral displays and signalling, as well as their role in pollination syndromes and the building of pollination networks. Wide-ranging in its coverage, it outlines current knowledge and complex emerging topics, demonstrating how advances in research methods are applied to pollination biology.

Author : K. J. Willis,J. C. McElwain
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198500653

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The Evolution of Plants by K. J. Willis,J. C. McElwain Pdf

This is a broad but provocative examination of the evolution of plants from the earliest forms of life to the development of our present flora. Taking a fresh, modern approach to a subject often treated very stuffily, the book incorporates many recent studies on the morphological evolution of plants, enlivens the subject with current research on ancient DNA and other biomolecular markers, and places plant evolution in the context of climate change and mass extinction. Also includes special Biome Maps, showing the flora on the Earth's surface at different geological ages. Written for a non-specialist audience.

Author : G. L. Stebbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:708394501

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Flowering Plants by G. L. Stebbins Pdf

Factors that determine evolutionary trends. Trends of angiosperm phylogeny.

Author : Lorentz C. Pearson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0849324831

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The Diversity and Evolution of Plants by Lorentz C. Pearson Pdf

This exciting new textbook examines the concepts of evolution as the underlying cause of the rich diversity of life on earth-and our danger of losing that rich diversity. Written as a college textbook, The Diversity and Evolution of Plants introduces the great variety of life during past ages, manifested by the fossil record, using a new natural classification system. It begins in the Proterozoic Era, when bacteria and bluegreen algae first appeared, and continues through the explosions of new marine forms in the Helikian and Hadrynian Periods, land plants in the Devonian, and flowering plants in the Cretaceous. Following an introduction, the three subkingdoms of plants are discussed. Each chapter covers one of the eleven divisions of plants and begins with an interesting vignette of a plant typical of that division. A section on each of the classes within the division follows. Each section describes where the groups of plants are found and their distinguishing features. Discussions in each section include phylogeny and classification, general morphology, and physiology, ecological significance, economic uses, and potential for research. Suggested readings and student exercises are found at the end of each chapter.

Author : Robert Francis Scagel
Publisher : Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015010178591

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Plants, an Evolutionary Survey by Robert Francis Scagel Pdf

Plants: An evolutionary survey goes beyond descriptive morphology to treat botany like the modern biological discipline that it is. The text is a completely rewritten and updated version of An Evolutionary Survey of The Plant Kingdom, one of the most highly acclaimed surveys of vascular and nonvascular plants ever published.

Author : James F. Hancock
Publisher : CABI
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 1780641427

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Plant Evolution and the Origin of Crop Species by James F. Hancock Pdf

This book is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the evolutionary processes, describing the chromosome structure, genetic variation, multifactorial genome, polyploidy, gene duplication and speciation. Part 2 deals with the origins of agriculture and the dynamics of plant domestication, covering some cereal grains, protein plants, starchy staple and sugar crops, as well as fruit, vegetable, fibre and oil crops. A chapter on ex situ and in situ conservation of germplasm resources is included.

Author : Wilson N. Stewart,Gar W. Rothwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521382947

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Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants by Wilson N. Stewart,Gar W. Rothwell Pdf

This 1993 textbook describes and explains the origin and evolution of plants as revealed by the fossil record.

Author : George Ledyard Stebbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Plants
ISBN : 0608177121

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Variation and Evolution in Plants by George Ledyard Stebbins Pdf

Description and analysis of variation patterns; Exemples of variation patterns within species and genera; The basis of individual variation; Natural selection and variation in populations; Genetic systems as factors in evolution; Isolation and the origin of species; Hybridization and its effects; Polyploidy; Geographic distribution and significance of polyploidy; Apomixis in relation to variation and evolution; Structural hybridity and the genetic system; Evolutionary trends: the karyotype; External morphology; Fossils modern distribution patterns and rates of evolution.