Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction
New Approaches
Published in October 1992
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-412-03021-5 (ISBN)
Description
Great progress has been made during the past decade in the burgeoning field of plant reproductive biology. A number of quantitative and technical breakthroughs, such as horizontal starch gel electrophoresis, have resulted in a revolution in thinking. The area of breeding systems, which used to be marked by a rather static focus on pollination and self-incompatibility, has been transformed by dynamic models of transitional pathways, and investigators are looking not only into genetic factors but ecological ones as well. Workers in the field have recently produced detailed accounts of mating success and the relative fitness of plants as male and female parents, thus testing the applicability of the sexual selection theory to plants. "Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction" surveys recent advances in the field of plant reproductive biology and identifies fruitful avenues for future research. The contributors are well known in the fields of morphology, systematics, genetics, cell biology, and ecology, representing the full spectrum of approaches that contribute vigour to this emerging field.
This book should be of interest to professionals and students in plant science, evolutionary ecology, genetics, plant breeding, and reproductive biology.
This book should be of interest to professionals and students in plant science, evolutionary ecology, genetics, plant breeding, and reproductive biology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
biography
Dimensions
Height: 152 mm
Width: 230 mm
Weight
840 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-412-03021-5 (9780412030215)
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Content
Pollen presentation and viability schedules - James D Thomson; Evolutionary genetics of pollen competition - David L Mulcahy; Measuring gene flow and pollen dispersal in forest tree seed orchards with genetic markers - W T Adams; Measuring components of male reproduction in plants: how well do they approximate fitness? - Maureen L Stanton, Tia-Lynn Ashman, Laura Galloway and Helen Young; Mechanisms of non-random mating in wild radish - Diane L Marshall, Michael W Folsom; Factors that influence pollen performance - A G Stephenson, T-C Lau, M Quesada, J A Winsor; Evolutionary stable strategies of reproduction in plants: who benefits and how? - David G Lloyd; Development and the evolution and ecology of plant reproductive characteristics - Pamela K Diggle; A phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of female gametophytes, double fertilization, and endosperm - Michael J Donoghue and Samuel M Scheiner; Genetic and physiological aspects of pollen-pistil interactions - R Bruce Knox, Cenk Suphioglu and Mohan Singh; Components of reproductive success in the herbaceous perennial Amianthium muscaetoxicum - Joseph Travis; Patterns of ovule abortion and loss of reproductive capacity in rare paleoendemics - Delbert Wiens, Edward J King and Clyde L Calvin; Environmental modification of floral traits and gender allocation in wild radish: consequences for natural selection - Susan J Mazer; Ecological models of plant reproduction and the evolutionary stability of mixed mating systems - Kent E Holsinger; Experimental studies of mating-system evolution: the marriage of marker genes and floral biology - S C H Barrett, J R Kohn and M B Cruzan.