Phytochemistry and angiosperm phylogeny
By: edited by David A. Young, David S. Seigler.
Contributors: Young, David A.; Seigler, David S.
Publisher: Praeger; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Angiosperms -- Composition -- Congresses.; Angiosperms -- Phylogeny -- Congresses.; Angiosperms -- Chemotaxonomy -- Congresses.; Botanical chemistry -- Congresses.; Biochemistry -- Congresses.; Phylogeny -- Congresses.; Plants -- Congresses.; Plants -- Classification -- Congresses.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 259-276.
"A compilation of the papers presented at the symposium 'Phytochemistry and angiosperm phylogeny' held on August 15, 1979, at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, under the primary sponsorship of the Phytochemical Section of the Botantical Society of America as part of the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences"--Introd.
Table of contents: title: DNA hybridization techniques for the study of plant evolution / H.S. Belford, W.F. Thompson, and D.B. Stein; title: Amino acid sequence studies and plant phylogeny / Ron Scogin; title: Divergence, convergence, and parallelism in phytochemical characters / James Eric Rodman; title: Cyanogenic compounds and angiosperm phylogeny / Stephen G. Saupe; title: Terpenes and plant phylogeny / David S. Seigler; title: A revised classification of the angiosperms with comments on correlation between chemical and other characters / Rolf M.T. Dahlgren, Soren Rosendal-Jensen, and Bent Juhl Nielsen; title: The usefulness of flavonoids in angiosperm phylogeny / David A. Young; title: Phytochemistry and angiosperm phylogeny, a summary statement / Robert F. Thorne.