Course Reading

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Reading
Sept 10
Do species boundaries result from ecological or floral isolation? Grant, V. 1952. Isolation and hybridization between Aquilegia formosa and A. pubescens. El Aliso 2: 341-360.

Chase, V. A., and P. H. Raven. 1975. Evolutionary and ecological relationships between Aquilegia formosa and A. pubescens (Ranunculaceae), two perennial plants. Evolution 29: 474-486.

Hodges, S. A., and M. L. Arnold. 1994. Floral and ecological isolation between Aquilegia formosa and Aquilegia pubescens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 91: 2493-2496.

Sept 17
Genetic diversity and heavy metal tolerance Mengoni, A, C Gonnelli, F Galardi, R Gabbrielli & M Bazzicalupo. 2003. Genetic diversity and heavy metal tolerance in populations of Silene paradoxa L. (Caryophyllaceae): a random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis. Molecular Ecology 9: 1319 – 1324.

Deng, J, B Liao1, M Ye, D Deng, C Lan, & W Shu. 2007. The effects of heavy metal pollution on genetic diversity in zinc/cadmium hyperaccumulator Sedum alfredii populations. Plant and Soil 297: 83-92.

Sept 24
Genetic linkage and crop evolution Paterson AH, Y-R Lin, Z Li, KF Schertz, JF Doebley, SRM Pinson, S-C Liu, JW Stansel, & JE Irvine. 1995. Convergent domestication of cereal crops by independent mutations at corresponding genetic loci. Science 269: 1714 - 1718.

Weeden, NF. 2007. Genetic changes accompanying the domestication of Pisum sativum: is there a common genetic basis to the 'domestication syndrome' for legumes? Annals of Botany 100: 1017-1025.
Oct 1
Plant molecular responses to radiation

Kovalchuk, I, V Abramov, I Pogribny, & O Kovalchuk. 2004.  Molecular aspects of plant adaptation to life in the Chernobyl Zone. Plant Physiology  135: 357–363.

Boubriak, II, DM Grodzinsky, VP Polischuk, VD Naumenko, NP Gushcha, AN Micheev, SJ McCready, and DJ Osborne. 2008.  Adaptation and impairment of DNA repair function in pollen of Betula verrucosa and seeds of Oenothera biennis from differently radionuclide-contaminated sites of Chernobyl. Annals of Botany 101: 267-276.

Oct. 8
Evolution of plant mating systems

Barrett, SCH. 2002. Evolution of sex: The evolution of plant sexual diversity. Nature Reviews Genetics 3: 274-284.

Renner, SS, L Beenken, GW Grimm, A Kocyan, & RE Ricklefs. 2007. The evolution of dioecy, heterodichogamy, and labile sex expression in Acer. Evolution 61: 2701-2719.

Oct. 15
Analyzing plant ancient DNA

Gugerli, F, L Parducci, RJ  Petit. 2005.  Ancient plant DNA: review and prospects.  New Phytologist  166: 409-418.

Lagler, R, G Gyulai, M Humphreys, Z Szabo, L Horvath, A Bittsanszky, J Kiss, L Holly, and L Heszky. 2005. Morphological and molecular analysis of common millet (P. miliaceum) cultivars compared to an aDNA sample from the 15th century (Hungary).  Euphytica 146: 77-85.

Oct. 29
Escape of plant transgenes

Chapman, MA, & JM Burke. 2006. Letting the gene out of the bottle: the population genetics of genetically modified crops. New Phytologist 170: 429-443.

Warwick SI, A Legere, MJ Sinard & T James. 2008. Do escaped transgenes persist in nature? The case of an herbicide resistance transgene in a weedy Brassica rapa population. Molecular Ecology 17:1387-1395.

Nov. 5
Molecular genetic studies of ployploid plants

Soltis, PS, & DE Soltis. 2000. The role of genetic and genomic attributes in the success of polyploids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 97: 7051-7057.

Luttikhuizen, DT, MC Harmsen, & MJR van Luyn. 2007. Genetic diversity in diploid vs. tetraploid Rorippa amphibia (Brassicaceae). Molecular Ecology 16:3544-3553.

Nov. 12
Joint evolution of the mating system and inbreeding depression

Crnokrak, P, & SCH Barrett. 2002. Perspective: Purging the genetic load: A review of the experimental evidence. Evolution 56: 2347-2358.

Michalski, SG, & W Durka. 2007. High selfing and high inbreeding depression in peripheral populations of Juncus atratus. Molecular Ecology 16: 4715-4727.

Nov. 19
Molecular studies of gene flow and fragmentation

Kramer, AT, JL Ison, MV Ashley, & HF Howe. 2008. The paradox of forest fragmentation genetics. Conservation Biology 22: 878-885.

Nason, JD, EA Herre, & JL Hamrick. 1998. The breeding structure of a tropical keystone plant resource. Nature 391: 685-687.

Nov. 26
Thanksgiving

 

Dec. 3

Non-Mendelian inheritance: the case of hothead

Lolle, SJ, JL Victor, JM Young, and RE Pruitt. 2005. Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis. Nature 434: 505-509.

Chaudhury, A. 2005. Plant genetics - Hothead healer and extragenomic information; Ray, A. 2005. Plant genetics - RNA cache genome trash? Nature 437: E1-E2. [both letters and Lolle et al.'s response can be found on the pdf of Ray (2005)].

Comai, L, & RA Cartwright. 2005. A toxic mutator and selection alternative to the non-Mendelian RNA cache hypothesis for hothead reversion. Plant Cell 17: 2856-2858.

Dec. 3

Research proposals, pizza, & movie?

toppings to be announced