Early Events in Monocot EvolutionPaul Wilkin, Simon J. Mayo Tracing the evolution of one of the most ancient major branches of flowering plants, this is a wide-ranging survey of state-of-the-art research on the early clades of the monocot phylogenetic tree. It explores a series of broad but linked themes, providing for the first time a detailed and coherent view of the taxa of the early monocot lineages, how they diversified and their importance in monocots as a whole. Featuring contributions from leaders in the field, the chapters trace the evolution of the monocots from largely aquatic ancestors. Topics covered include the rapidly advancing field of monocot fossils, aquatic adaptations in pollen and anther structure and pollination strategies and floral developmental morphology. The book also presents a new plastid sequence analysis of early monocots and a review of monocot phylogeny as a whole, placing in an evolutionary context a plant group of major ecological, economic and horticultural importance. |
Contents
ROBERT W SCOTLAND Department of Plant Sciences South Parks Road University | 26 |
The fossil record of noncommelinid monocots | 29 |
MELVIN R DUVALL Department of Biological Sciences Northern Illinois University | 32 |
ls syncarpy an ancestral condition in monocots and core eudicots? | 60 |
SOKOLOEE MARGARITA V REMIZOwA and PAULA RUDALL | 82 |
Macroecological correlates of global monocot species richness | 99 |
In time and with water the systematics of alismatid monocotyledons | 118 |
Evolution of floral traits in relation to pollination mechanisms | 165 |
Patterns of bract reduction in racemose inflorescences of earlydivergent | 185 |
REMIZOwA DMITRY D SOKOLOEE and PAULA I RUDALL | 208 |
A Englers Natural System | 243 |
Aroid floral morphogenesis in relation to phylogeny | 279 |
Some observations on the homology of the daffodil corona | 297 |
Contrasting patterns of support among plastid genes and genomes | 315 |
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