Breeding system diversification and evolution in American Poa supersect. Homalopoa (Poaceae: Poeae: Poinae)

Annals of Botany

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 281-303

  Giussani, Liliana M ^a   Gillespie, Lynn J ^b   Scataglini, M Amalia ^a   Negritto, María A ^c   Anton, Ana M ^d   Soreng, Robert J ^e  

^a INSTITUTO DE BOTÁNICA DARWINION   (Argentina)

^b CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL MAGDALENA   (Colombia)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^e SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding system; diclinism; dioecism; DNA; gynodioecism; gynomonoecism; Homalopoa; molecular dating; molecular phylogeny; North America; Poa; South America

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DIOECY; DNA; FOSSIL RECORD; GRASS; GYNODIOECY; HERB; HERMAPHRODITISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; PLASTID; PLEISTOCENE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SHRUB; TAXONOMY;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

DISSANTHELIUM; MYA; POA; POACEAE; POEAE;

PLANT DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

BAYES THEOREM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; FOSSIL; GENETICS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT BREEDING; PLASTID; POA; POACEAE; SOUTH AMERICA;

BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, PLANT; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FLOWERS; FOSSILS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT BREEDING; PLASTIDS; POA; POACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84982151706     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcw108     Document Type: Article

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