Author: Kunio Iwatsuki
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 4431659188
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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.
Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants
Author: Kunio Iwatsuki
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 4431659188
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 4431659188
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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.
ORIGIN EARLY DIVERS LAND PLANT PB
Author: KENRICK PAUL
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
ISBN:
Category : Cladistic analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The first comprehensive application of cladistics to the massive body of data on both living and fossil plants, this book clarifies phylogenetic patterns within and among basal groups of land plants. In its analysis of the patterns and processes underlying the origin of land plants, the book sheds light on central questions surrounding the initial assembly of terrestrial ecosystems.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
ISBN:
Category : Cladistic analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The first comprehensive application of cladistics to the massive body of data on both living and fossil plants, this book clarifies phylogenetic patterns within and among basal groups of land plants. In its analysis of the patterns and processes underlying the origin of land plants, the book sheds light on central questions surrounding the initial assembly of terrestrial ecosystems.
Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants
Author: M. Ingrouille
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401123004
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants provides a fresh and long overdue treatment of plant anatomy and morphology for the biology undergraduate of today. Setting aside the traditional plod through the plant taxa, the author adopts a problem-based functional approach, exploring plant diversity as a series of different solutions to the design problems facing plant life on land.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401123004
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants provides a fresh and long overdue treatment of plant anatomy and morphology for the biology undergraduate of today. Setting aside the traditional plod through the plant taxa, the author adopts a problem-based functional approach, exploring plant diversity as a series of different solutions to the design problems facing plant life on land.
The Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants
Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants
Plant Evolution
Author: Karl J. Niklas
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022634228X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022634228X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
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.
Mycorrhizal Symbiosis
Author: Sally E. Smith
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 9780080559346
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
The roots of most plants are colonized by symbiotic fungi to form mycorrhiza, which play a critical role in the capture of nutrients from the soil and therefore in plant nutrition. Mycorrhizal Symbiosis is recognized as the definitive work in this area. Since the last edition was published there have been major advances in the field, particularly in the area of molecular biology, and the new edition has been fully revised and updated to incorporate these exciting new developments. Over 50% new material Includes expanded color plate section Covers all aspects of mycorrhiza Presents new taxonomy Discusses the impact of proteomics and genomics on research in this area
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 9780080559346
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
The roots of most plants are colonized by symbiotic fungi to form mycorrhiza, which play a critical role in the capture of nutrients from the soil and therefore in plant nutrition. Mycorrhizal Symbiosis is recognized as the definitive work in this area. Since the last edition was published there have been major advances in the field, particularly in the area of molecular biology, and the new edition has been fully revised and updated to incorporate these exciting new developments. Over 50% new material Includes expanded color plate section Covers all aspects of mycorrhiza Presents new taxonomy Discusses the impact of proteomics and genomics on research in this area
ORIGIN EARLY DIVERS LAND PLANT
Author: KENRICK PAUL
Publisher: Smithsonian
ISBN: 9781560987307
Category : Cladistic analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Publisher: Smithsonian
ISBN: 9781560987307
Category : Cladistic analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Plant Diversification
Author: Theodore Delevoryas
Publisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Some evolutionary trends in the algae. The fungi. Origin and evolution of land vascular plants. Flowering plant evolution. Paleobotanical summary.
Publisher: Holt McDougal
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Some evolutionary trends in the algae. The fungi. Origin and evolution of land vascular plants. Flowering plant evolution. Paleobotanical summary.
Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants
Author: Wilson N. Stewart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521382946
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This 1993 textbook describes and explains the origin and evolution of plants as revealed by the fossil record.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521382946
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
This 1993 textbook describes and explains the origin and evolution of plants as revealed by the fossil record.