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  Monograph ties together different lines of research and provides new insights on plant evolution in an integrated, verifiable context. DLC: Plants - Evolution. | Foreword |
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| Contributors |
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| Origin and Diversification of Primitive Land Plants |
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1. Charting Diversity in Early Land Plants: Some Challenges for the Next Millennium |
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2. Morphological Diversity and Evolution of Vegetative Organs in Pteridophytes |
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3. RNA Editing in Land Plants |
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4. Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Some Conifer Families: Role and Significance of Permineralized Cone Records |
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| Origin and Diversification of Angiosperms |
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5. Evolutionary Biology of Flowers: Prospects for the Next Century |
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6. Fossil History of Magnoliid Angiosperms |
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7. Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships Among Angiosperms: An Overview Based on rbcL and 18S rDNA Sequences |
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8. Evolution of MADS Gene Family in Plants |
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9. Palynological Approaches to the Origin and Early Diversification of Angiosperms |
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10. Chromosomal Evolution of Angiosperms |
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| Specialisation and Mechanisms of Diversification |
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11. Mating Systems and Evolution in Flowering Plants |
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12. Plant Speciation on Oceanic Islands |
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13. Relations of Environmental Change to Angiosperm Evolution During the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary |
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14. Modes and Mechanisms of Speciation in Pteridophytes |
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15. Speciation and Morophological Evolution in Rheophytes |
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| Subject Index |
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