AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Volume 91, Number 2,  February 2004


 Development and Morphogenesis

 

                Inflorescence development in a new teosinte: Zea nicaraguensis (Poaceae)

            ALAN R. ORR AND MARSHALL D. SUNDBERG                                                                              165


            
De nova vaiation in life-history traits and responses to growth conditions of resynthesized polyploid

            Brassica napus (Brassicaceae)

            MERIC SCHRANZ AND THOMAS C. OSBORN                                                                                174

 

Genetics and Molecular Biology

 

                Identification of a novel gene, HaABRC5, from Helianthus annus (Asteraceae) that is upregulated

            in response to drought , salinity, and abscisic acid

            XIANAN LIU AND WM. VANCE BAIRD                                                                                           184

 

Reproductive Biology

               

                Seed production from the mixed mating system of Chesapeake Bay (USA) eelgrass (Zostera marina;

            Zosteraceae)

            JENNIFER M. RHODE AND J. EMMETT DUFFY                                                                              192

 

            The reproductive biology of Sophora femandeziana (Leguminosae), a vulnerable endemic species from

            Isla Robinson Crusoe

            GABRIEL BERNARDELLO, RAMIRO AGUILAR AND GREGORY J. ANDERSON                        198

 

            Breeding system evolution in Tarasa (Malvaceae) and selection for reduced pollen grain size in the

            polyploid species

            JENNIFER A. TATE AND BERYL B. SIMPSON                                                                                 207

 

Paleobotany

 

                Phosphatized multicellular alage in the Neproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China, and the early

             evolution of florideophyte red algae

             SHUHAI XIAO, ANDREW H. KNOLL, XUNLAI YUAN AND CURT M.PUESCHEL                     214

 

Ecology

 

                Adaptive radiation of photosynthetic physiology in the Hawailan lobeliads: light regimes, static light

             responses, and whole-plant compensation points

             THOMAS J. GIVNISH, REBECCA A. MONTGOMERY AND GUILLERMO GOLDSTEIN            228

 

Systematics

               

                Phylogeny and biogeography of Caltha (Ranunculaceae) based on chloroplast and nuclear DNA

            sequences

ERIC SCHUETTPELZ AND SARA B.HOOT                                                                                       247

 

Molecular evidence for biocontinetal hybridogenous genomic constitution in Lepidium sensu stricto

(Brassicaceae) species from Australia and New Zealand

KLAUS MUMMENHOFF, PETER LINDER, NIKOLAI FRIESEN, JOHN L. BOWMAN,

JI-YOUNG LEE AND ANDREAS FRANZKE                                                                                     254

 

Elatinaceae are sister to Malpighiaceae; Peridiscaceae belong to Saxifragales

CHARLES C. DAVIS AND MARK W. CHASE                                                                                  262

 

Phylogenetics and biogeography of the neotropical fern genera Jamesonia and Erisorus (Pteridaceae)

PATRICIA SANCHEZ-BARACALDO                                                                                                 274

 

Brief Communications

 

Alleopathic inhibition of germination by Alliaria petiolata (Brassicaceae)

DANIEL PRATI AND OLIVER BOSSDORF                                                                                      285

 

The floral biology of Curcumorpha longiflora (Zingiberaceae): A ginger with two-day flowers

JIANG-YUN GAO, LING ZHANG, XIAO-BAO DENG, PAN-YU REN, JE-JUN KONG

AND QING-JUN LI                                                                                                                             289

 

Book Review

 

                A view of non-analog worlds

            ROBERT A. GASTALDO                                                                                                                    294