Plant Molecular Evolution

by Doyle, Jeff J.; Gaut, Brandon S.

• ISBN13: 9780792360964
• ISBN10: 0792360966
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Plant molecular biology has produced an ever-increasing flood of data about genes and genomes. Evolutionary biology and systematics provides the context for synthesizing this information. This book brings together contributions from evolutionary biologists, systematists, developmental geneticists, biochemists, and others working on diverse aspects of plant biology whose work touches to varying degrees on plant molecular evolution. The book is organized in three parts, the first of which introduces broad topics in evolutionary biology and summarizes advances in plant molecular phylogenetics, with emphasis on model plant systems. The second segment presents a series of case studies of gene family evolution, while the third gives overviews of the evolution of important plant processes such as disease resistance, nodulation, hybridization, transposable elements and genome evolution, and polyploidy.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Section 1: Molecular evolution and phylogenetics:general issues
Evolution of genes and taxa: a primer	23	(20)
J.J. Doyle
B.S. Gaut
Examining rates and patterns of nucleotide substitution in plants	43	(32)
S.V. Muse
Contributions of plant molecular systematics to studies of molecular evolution	75	(17)
E.D. Soltis
P.S. Soltis
Section 2: Evolution of gene families and gene functions: case histories
Molecular evolution of the chalcone synthase multigene family in the morning glory genome	92	(21)
M.L. Durbin
B. McCaig
M.T. Clegg
Myrosinase: gene family evolution and herbivore defense in Brassicaceae	113	(36)
L. Rask
E. Andreasson
B. Ekbom
S. Eriksson
B. Pontoppidan
J. Meijer
A short history of MADS-box genes in plants	149	(17)
G. Theissen
A. Becker
A. Di Rosa
A. Kanno
J. T. Kim
T. Munster
K.-U. Winter
H. Saedler
Knots in the family tree: evolutionary relationships and functions of knox homeobox genes	166	(13)
L. Reiser
P. Sanchez-Baracaldo
S. Hake
Section 3: The evolution of important phenomena in plants
Evolutionary genetics of self-incompatibility in the Solanaceae	179	(15)
A.D. Richman
J.R. Kohn
The evolution of nodulation	194	(10)
G. Gualtieri
T. Bisseling
The evolution of disease resistance genes	204	(20)
T.E. Richter
P.C. Ronald
Hybridization, introgression, and linkage evolution	224	(25)
L.H. Rieseberg
S.J.E. Baird
K.A. Gardner
Genome evolution in polyploids	249	(20)
J.F. Wendel
Transposable element contributions to plant gene and genome evolution	269	(3)
J.L. Bennetzen
Index	272