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Plant Molecular Evolution

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Jeff J. Doyle

    1. L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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  2. Brandon S. Gaut

    1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA

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Plant molecular biology has produced an ever-increasing flood of data about genes and genomes. Evolutionary biology and systematics provides the context for synthesizing this information. This book brings together contributions from evolutionary biologists, systematists, developmental geneticists, biochemists, and others working on diverse aspects of plant biology whose work touches to varying degrees on plant molecular evolution. The book is organized in three parts, the first of which introduces broad topics in evolutionary biology and summarizes advances in plant molecular phylogenetics, with emphasis on model plant systems. The second segment presents a series of case studies of gene family evolution, while the third gives overviews of the evolution of important plant processes such as disease resistance, nodulation, hybridization, transposable elements and genome evolution, and polyploidy.

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics: General Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages xi-xi
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    2. Evolution of genes and taxa: a primer

      • Jeff J. Doyle, Brandon S. Gaut
      Pages 1-23

    3. Examining rates and patterns of nucleotide substitution in plants

      • Spencer V. Muse
      Pages 25-43

    4. Contributions of plant molecular systematics to studies of molecular evolution

      • E. Douglas Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis
      Pages 45-75

  3. Evolution of Gene Families and Gene Functions: Case Histories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
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    2. Molecular evolution of the chalcone synthase multigene family in the morning glory genome

      • Mary L. Durbin, Bonnie McCaig, Michael T. Clegg
      Pages 79-92

    3. Myrosinase: gene family evolution and herbivore defense in Brassicaceae

      • Lars Rask, Erik Andréasson, Barbara Ekbom, Susanna Eriksson, Bo Pontoppidan, Johan Meijer
      Pages 93-113

    4. A short history of MADS-box genes in plants

      • Günter Theissen, Annette Becker, Alexandra Di Rosa, Akira Kanno, Jan T. Kim, Thomas Münster et al.
      Pages 115-149

    5. Knots in the family tree: evolutionary relationships and functions of knox homeobox genes

      • Leonore Reiser, Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo, Sarah Hake
      Pages 151-166

  4. The Evolution of Important Phenomena in Plants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Evolutionary genetics of self-incompatibility in the Solanaceae

      • Adam D. Richman, Joshua R. Kohn
      Pages 169-179

    3. The evolution of nodulation

      • Gustavo Gualtieri, Ton Bisseling
      Pages 181-194

    4. The evolution of disease resistance genes

      • Todd E. Richter, Pamela C. Ronald
      Pages 195-204

    5. Hybridization, introgression, and linkage evolution

      • Loren H. Rieseberg, Stuart J. E. Baird, Keith A. Gardner
      Pages 205-224

    6. Genome evolution in polyploids

      • Jonathan F. Wendel
      Pages 225-249

    7. Transposable element contributions to plant gene and genome evolution

      • Jeffrey L. Bennetzen
      Pages 251-269

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 271-272
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Reviews

`...tantalizing sampler of how two of the main menus of current biological research...can join and produce much richer results. ...this [first of Section 1] article provides one of the best expositions of the essential issues in contemporary molecular systematics...recommend it as required reading for any advanced student of evolutionary biology. The second chapter...contributes an excellent and readable explanation of the basic logical assumptions and statistical methods of likelihood estimation. ...extremely well and clearly written [two chapters in the third section]... Plant Molecular Evolution nicely complements recent contributions... (Soltis et al. 1998)...deserves a place in the library of any plant evolutionary biologist or molecular biologist.' Plant Systematics and Evolution, 226:1-2 (2001)

Editors and Affiliations

  • L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Jeff J. Doyle

  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA

    Brandon S. Gaut

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