Plant Development and Evolution

Ueli Grossniklaus is at University of Zurich, Switzerland

"At least for me, evolutionary considerations require including clades other than the angiosperms and it is refreshing to find chapters in this volume pointing in that direction." --New Biological Books

• 1. Evolution of the plant body planPéter Szövényi, Manuel Waller and Alexander Kirbis2. Evolution and co-option of developmental regulatory networks in early land plantsJohn L. Bowman, Liam N. Briginshaw and Stevie N. Florent3. The role of plant root systems in evolutionary adaptationVinay Shekhar, Dorothee Stӧckle, Martha Thellmann and Joop E.M. Vermeer4. Patterning at the shoot apical meristem and phyllotaxisBihai Shi and Teva Vernoux5. Leaf development and evolutionLachezar A. Nikolov, Adam Runions, Mainak Das Gupta and Miltos Tsiantis6. Vascular tissue development in plantsHiroo Fukuda and Kyoko Ohashi-Ito7. Transcriptional networks orchestrating programmed cell death during plant developmentMarta Cubría-Radío and Moritz K. Nowack8. Molecular regulation of flower developmentBennett Thomson and Frank Wellmer9. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: The developmental evolution of flowersElena M. Kramer10. Pre-meiotic anther developmentKarina van der Linde and Virginia Walbot11. The evolution and patterning of male gametophyte developmentDieter Hackenberg and David Twell12. Evolution of development of pollen performanceJoseph H. Williams and John B. Reese13. Female reproductive organ formation: A multitasking endeavorSara Simonini and Lars Østergaard14. Development and evolution of the unique ovules of flowering plantsCharles S. Gasser and Debra J. Skinner15. Development and function of the flowering plant female gametophyteIsil Erbasol Serbes, Joakim Palovaara and Rita Groß-Hardt16. Self-incompatibility in the Brassicaceae: Regulation and mechanism of self-recognitionJune B. Nasrallah17. Friend or foe: Signaling mechanisms during double fertilization in flowering seed plantsLiang-zi Zhou and Thomas Dresselhaus18. Genetic, molecular and parent-of-origin regulation of early embryogenesis in flowering plantsAlma Armenta-Medina and C. Stewart Gillmor19. Histology versus phylogeny: Viewing plant embryogenesis from an evo-devo perspectiveJohn W. Chandler and Wolfgang Werr20. Apomixis in flowering plants: Developmental and evolutionary considerationsGloria León-Martínez and Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada21. Seeds—An evolutionary innovation underlying reproductive success in flowering plantsCélia Baroux and Ueli Grossniklaus