Amy Litt

Amy Litt ye una taxónoma y botánica d'Estaos Xuníos especialista nel xéneru de planta carnívora Nepenthes. Ye Direutora de Xenómica Vexetal, y curadora Cullman.

Tien un Ph.D., pola City University of New York, nel New York Botanical Garden, de 1999. Defendió la tesis: "Floral morphology and phylogeny of Vochysiaceae".

 Delles publicaciones 
 Litt, A. 2010. Evolution of the ABC model of flower development: how new molecular mechanisms produz new floral forms. In prep for special issue of Int. J. Plant Sci.
 Hileman, L. C., S. Drea, G. de Martino, A. Litt, V.F. Irish. In press. Virus induced gene silencing is an effective tool to assay gene function in the basal eudicot Papaver somniferum (opium poppy). Plant J.
 Irish, V. F., A. Litt. 2005. Flower development and evolution: gene duplication, diversification, and redeployment. Current Opinions in Genes and Development 15
 Liu, Y., Nakayama, N., Schiff, M., Litt, A., Irish, V.F. Dinesh-Kumar, S.P. 2004. Virus induced gene silencing of a deficiens ortholog in Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant Mol. Biol. 54: 701-711
 Sytsma, K.J., A. Litt., M. Zjhra, J. C. Pires, M. Nepokroeff, Y. Conti, J. Walker, P.Wilson. 2004. Clades, clocks, and continents: historical and biogeographical analysis of Myrtaceae, Vochysiaceae, and relatives in the southern hemisphere. International J. of Plant Sci. 165 (4 Suppl.) S85-S105
 Litt, A. Vochysiaceae and Euphroniaceae. 2004. En: Flowering Plants of the Neotropics, N. Smith, S. A. Mori, A. Henderson, D. W. Stevenson, and S. Heald, eds. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton.
 Litt, A., V. F. Irish. 2003. Duplication and divergence in the APETAL1/FRUITFULL gene lineage: implications for the evolution of floral development programs. Genetics 165: 821-833
 Litt, A., D. W. Stevenson. 2003. Floral morphology of Vochysiaceae I. Position of the single fertile stamen. Am. J. of Botany 90:1533-1547
 Litt, A., D. W. Stevenson. 2003. Floral morphology of Vochysiaceae II. Structure of the gynoecium. Am. J. of Botany 90: 1548-1559
 Litt., A., M. Cheek. 2002. Korupodendron songweangum, a new genus and species of Vochysiaceae form West-Central Africa. Brittonia 54: 13-17
 Litt, A., M. W. Chase. 1999. The systematic position of Euphronia, with comments on the position of Balanops: an analysis based on rbcL sequence data. Systematic Botany 23: 401- 409
 Conti, E., A. Litt, P.G. Wilson, S.A Graham, B.G. Briggs, L.A.S. Johnson, K.J. Sytsma. 1997. Interfamiliar relationships in Myrtales: molecular phylogeny and patterns of morphological evolution. Systematic Botany 22: 629-647
 Conti, E., A. Litt, K. J. Sytsma. 1996. Circumscription of the Myrtales and their relationships to other Rosids: evidence from rbcL data. American J. of Botany 83: 221-233

 Llibros 
 Amy Litt. 1999. Floral morphology and phylogeny of Vochysiaceae''. Editor City Univ. of New York, 528 pp.

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Categoría:Botánicos y botániques d'Estaos Xuníos
Categoría:Taxónomos y taxónomes d'Estaos Xuníos