Plant Adaptation : Molecular Genetics and Ecology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cronk, Q. C. B.

Contributor:

National Research Council Canada.

Ree, R. H.

Whitton, J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plants.

Molecular genetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : NRC Research Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Proceedings of an International Workshop sponsored by the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research held December 11-13, 2002 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION: CONCEPTS IN PLANT ADAPTATION; 1 The new science of adaptation: an introduction; 2 Discussion report: an intellectual framework for a plant adaptation science; 3 Pathways to plant population genomics; 4 Evolvability and the raw materials for adaptation; 5 Nucleocytoplasmic incompatibility fosters speciation; 6 Discussion report: answered and unanswered questions in plant adaptation; APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF PLANT ADAPTATION; 7 Plant population genomics, linkage disequilibrium mapping, and the genetics of adaptation

8 Genomic approaches to identifying quantitative trait loci: lessons from Arabidopsis thaliana9 Experimental analysis of adaptive landscape topographies; 10 Terpene synthases and the mediation of plant-insect ecological interactions by terpenoids: a mini-review; 11 Adaptation in plant speciation: evidence for the role of selection in the evolution of isolating barriers between plant species; 12 Discussion report: New methods and tools for plant adaptation - what do we need?; TRAITS, POPULATIONS, AND SPECIES: CASE STUDIES IN PLANT ADAPTATION

13 Trends in the evolution of edaphic specialists with an example of parallel evolution in the Lasthenia californica complex14 Floral adaptations and biotic and abiotic selection pressures; 15 Polyploidy and plant adaptation: a framework for future research; 16 Evolutionary genetics of self-incompatibility in a new "model" plant: Arabidopsis lyrata; 17 Natural variation among accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana: beyond the flowering date, what morphological traits are relevant to study adaptation?

18 The study of ancient adaptation: a case study of a phytochrome gene pair from early-diverging angiosperms19 The variable nature of herbivore defense: evidence for a rapidly diverging Kunitz trypsin inhibitor gene in Populus; List of participants; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Issued by the National Research Council Canada.

ISBN:

1-280-45221-8

9786610452217

0-660-19337-X

OCLC:

123128490