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Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Kunio Iwatsuki

    1. Faculty of Science, Rikkyo University, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171, Japan

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  2. Peter H. Raven

    1. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA

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  • This book presents modern approaches for understanding evolution and diversification in land plants with molecular, morphological, and paleontological data

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages II-XIII
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  2. Origin and Diversification of Primitive Land Plants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Charting Diversity in Early Land Plants: Some Challenges for the Next Millennium

      • Dianne Edwards
      Pages 3-26

    3. Morphological Diversity and Evolution of Vegetative Organs in Pteridophytes

      • Masahiro Kato, Ryoko Imaichi
      Pages 27-43

    4. RNA Editing in Land Plants

      • Koichi Yoshinaga
      Pages 45-60

    5. Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Some Conifer Families: Role and Significance of Permineralized Cone Records

      • Takeshi Asakawa Ohsawa
      Pages 61-95

  3. Origin and Diversification of Angiosperms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Evolutionary Biology of Flowers: Prospects for the Next Century

      • Peter K. Endress
      Pages 99-119

    3. Fossil History of Magnoliid Angiosperms

      • Else Marie Friis, Peter R. Crane, Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen
      Pages 121-156

    4. Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships Among Angiosperms: An Overview Based on rbcL and 18S rDNA Sequences

      • Douglas E. Soltis, Carola Hibsch-Jetter, Pamela S. Soltis, Mark W. Chase, James S. Farris
      Pages 157-178

    5. Evolution of MADS Gene Family in Plants

      • Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Jo Ann Banks
      Pages 179-197

    6. Palynological Approaches to the Origin and Early Diversification of Angiosperms

      • Masamichi Takahashi
      Pages 199-208

    7. Chromosomal Evolution of Angiosperms

      • Hiroshi Okada
      Pages 209-220

  4. Speciation and Mechanisms of Diversification

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. Mating Systems and Evolution in Flowering Plants

      • Kent E. Holsinger, Jennifer E. Steinbachs
      Pages 223-248

    3. Plant Speciation on Oceanic Islands

      • Daniel J. Crawford, Tod F. Stuessy
      Pages 249-267

    4. Relations of Environmental Change to Angiosperm Evolution During the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary

      • Jack A. Wolfe
      Pages 269-290

    5. Modes and Mechanisms of Speciation in Pteridophytes

      • Christopher H. Haufler
      Pages 291-307

    6. Speciation and Morphological Evolution in Rheophytes

      • Ryoko Imaichi, Masahiro Kato
      Pages 309-318

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 319-330
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About this book

It is agreed by most scientists that there is a real possibility of mankind's being plunged into crisis around the middle of the twenty-first century because of insufficient crop production to support the explosively increasing world popula­ tion and because of serious pollution of the global environment. Plants should play the major role in alleviating this crisis. Consequently, plant science will become of crucial importance in the next century. The application of plant science to crop improvement and the pro­ duction of plants resistant to environmental pollution will be achieved through complete understanding of the basic functions of plants. Fun­ damental understanding of individual species and the evolution of plants is also important. The Botanical Society of Japan, which was established in 1882, decided to publish a series of special issues of the Botanical Magazine, Tokyo (now the Journal of Plant Research). The aim of this series was to present overviews of recent advances in various fields of plant sciences. As a result, The Botanical Society of Japan published Controlling Factors in Plant Development in 1978, Regulation of Photosynthetic Processes in 1991, and Cellular and Molecular Bio­ logy in Plant Cell Cultures in 1993. The contributions to these high-quality special issues were written by leading international scientists in each field, and these publications had a great impact worldwide.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Science, Rikkyo University, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171, Japan

    Kunio Iwatsuki

  • Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA

    Peter H. Raven

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants

  • Editors: Kunio Iwatsuki, Peter H. Raven

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-65918-1

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Japan 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-70203-0Published: 01 September 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-65920-4Published: 14 June 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-65918-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 330

  • Topics: Plant Sciences

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