
Plant Systematics
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Description
Key Features
- Covers research developments in plant molecular biology
- Features clear, detailed cladograms, drawings and photos
- Includes major revisions to chapters on phylogenetic systematics and plant morphology
Readership
Graduate and undergraduate students in botany, plant taxonomy, plant systematics, plant pathology, plant anatomy, and ecology; scientists and researchers in any of the plant sciences
Table of Contents
UNIT I SYSTEMATICS
1. Plant Systematics: an Overview
2. Phylogenetic SystematicsUNIT II EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY OF PLANTS
3. Evolution and Diversity of Green and Land Plants
4. Evolution and Diversity of Vascular Plants
5. Evolution and Diversity of Woody and Seed Plants
6. Evolution of Flowering Plants
7. Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: Amborellales, Nymphaeales, Austrobaileyales, Magnoliids, Ceratophyllales, and Monocots
8. Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants: EudicotsUNIT III SYSTEMATIC EVIDENCE AND DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY
9. Plant Morphology Chapter
10. Plant Anatomy and Physiology
11. Plant Embryology
12. Palynology
13. Plant Reproductive Biology
14. Plant Molecular SystematicsUNIT IV RESOURCES IN PLANT SYSTEMATICS
15. Plant Identification
16. Plant Nomenclature
17. Plant Collecting and Documentation
18. Herbaria and Data Information SystemsUNIT V SPECIES CONCEPTS AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
19. Species and Conservation in SystematicsAppendix 1 Plant Description
Appendix 2 Botanical Illustrations
Appendix 3 Scientific Journals in Plant Systematics
Appendix 4 Statistics and Morphometrics in Plant Systematics
Product details
- No. of pages: 774
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: November 10, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128126288
- eBook ISBN: 9780128126295
About the Author
Michael Simpson
In addition to publishing numerous articles in technical journals, Dr. Simpson has authored of the widely used textbook Plant Systematics (Elsevier-Academic Press, 2006; 2nd ed. 2010.)
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Pamela C. Mon Sep 27 2021
Plant Systematics
Only partly read. Very thorough with tons of information. Will take ages to read and absorb