[Paper] Mutational dynamics and phylogenetic utility of noncoding chloroplast DNA

Authors: Borsch T and Quandt D
Source: Plant Systematics and Evolution (2009) 282:169-199.
Note:
The authors studied the mutational dynamics of introns and spacers in plastid genomes. They reviewed some of the well-known markers and the argued the usage of them for phylogenetic analysis. The bottom line is that the structural information is needed to be incorporated.
Also, they put up an erratum in PSE 2010 284:129. There are some mislabeling in Figure 1.

[Paper] Universal primer for chloroplast trnK/matK

Title: Universal primers for the amplification of the plastid trnK/matK region in land plants
Authors: Susann Wicke & Dietmar Quandt
Source: Anales del Jardin Botanico de Madrid (2009) 66:285-288.
Note:
I ran across this small paper talking about new primers for PCR of chloroplast trnK/matK of all land plants. They claimed these work for various land plants. Just try for yourself if you like.

[Paper] An Atlas of Type I MADS Box Gene Expression during Female Gametophyte and Seed Development in Arabidopsis

Authors: Marian Bemer, Klaas Heijmans, Chiara Airoldi, Brendan Davies and Gerco C. Angenent
Source: Plant Physiology (2010) 154:287-300.
Abstract:
Type I的MADS-box基因研究的人比較少，在阿拉伯芥中有61個copies，但是除了PHERES1, AGL80, DIANA, AGL62, AGL23之外，幾乎沒有什麼報導。主要的原因在於大部份T-DNA insertion的mutant沒有什麼phenotype。作者利用系統性的gene expression研究，顯示這些基因大多表現於female gametophyte和早期的seed development。相對於MIKCc-MADS genes，是蠻有意思的比較，也許和世代交替的改變有關連。

[Paper] Computational morphodyamics: a modeling framework to understand plant growth

Authors: Vijay Chickarmane, Adrienne H.K. Roeder, Paul T. Tarr, Alexandre Cunha, Cory Tobin, and Elliot M. Meyerowitz
Source: Annu. Rev. Plant Biology (2010) 61:65
Abstract:
這是一篇有關電腦模擬植物生長模式的review，作者們舉了很多的例子，說明目前modeling的應用性。Computer modeling在近幾年應用在植物生長，自細胞、個體、以至群聚模型上都有很大的進展。在不同參數的選擇下，可以模擬出各種發育的狀況。有興趣的人可以參考如CellModeller，OpenAlea等的網站，體驗一下這些新的工具。

[Paper] Land plant life cycle

Authors: Karl J. Niklas and Ulrich Kutschera
Journal: New Phytologist (2010) 185:27
Abstract:
A paper summarized the evolution of life cycle in land plants. 雖然是一篇review，但是在分子證據的解讀上，有一些錯誤，讀的時候要小心。

[Paper] Cryptic dioecy in Mussaenda pubescens (Rubiaceae): a species with stigma-height dimorphism

作者：Ai-Min Li, Xiao-Qin Wu, Dian-Xiang Zhang, and Spencer C. H. Barrett

出處: Annals of Botany （出版時間尚未確定）

摘要：

具有distyly特徵的玉葉金花，是不是一種隱性的雌雄異株(cryptic dioecy)？本篇文章結果顯示，具有長花柱型者花粉為無性，而短花柱型則不會結實，這代表了兩種花柱型的個體分別具有雌雄的功能。長花柱大孢子與雌配子體可正常發育，而花藥中的tepetal cell會提早瓦解，而導致雄不孕。相反地，短花柱中的小孢子及雄配子體發育正常，而大孢子及雌配子體在發育的各階段皆有退化的現象，無法形成正常的胚囊，雌不孕也因此產生。由此推論，玉葉金花的確是一種隱性的雌雄異株。

[Paper] GENES IN EVOLUTION

出處：Annals of Botany, 2010, 106: 437-520

摘要：

本卷的主題是 gene in evolution: the control of diversity and speciation，可參考以下內容。

J. S. Pat Heslop-Harrison
Genes in evolution: the control of diversity and speciation
Ann Bot 2010 106: 437-438; doi:10.1093/aob/mcq168.
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/106/3/437?etoc

Loren H. Rieseberg and Benjamin K. Blackman
Speciation genes in plants
Ann Bot 2010 106: 439-455; doi:10.1093/aob/mcq126.
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/106/3/439?etoc

Tianhua He, Byron B. Lamont, Siegfried L. Krauss, and Neal J. Enright
Genetic connectivity and inter-population seed dispersal of Banksia
hookeriana at the landscape scale
Ann Bot 2010 106: 457-466; doi:10.1093/aob/mcq140.
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/106/3/457?etoc

Naofumi Nomura, Tokushiro Takaso, Ching-I Peng, Yoshiko Kono, Kazuo
Oginuma, Yuki Mitsui, and Hiroaki Setoguchi
Molecular phylogeny and habitat diversification of the genus Farfugium
(Asteraceae) based on nuclear rDNA and plastid DNA
Ann Bot 2010 106: 467-482; doi:10.1093/aob/mcq139.
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/106/3/467?etoc

Fabiola Parra, Alejandro Casas, Juan Manuel Penaloza-Ramirez, Aurea C.
Cortes-Palomec, Victor Rocha-Ramirez, and Antonio Gonzalez-Rodriguez
Evolution under domestication: ongoing artificial selection and divergence
of wild and managed Stenocereus pruinosus (Cactaceae) populations in the
Tehuacan Valley, Mexico
Ann Bot 2010 106: 483-496; doi:10.1093/aob/mcq143.
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/106/3/483?etoc

Tao Shi, Hongwen Huang, and Michael S. Barker
Ancient genome duplications during the evolution of kiwifruit (Actinidia)
and related Ericales
Ann Bot 2010 106: 497-504; doi:10.1093/aob/mcq129.
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/106/3/497?etoc

Juan Guo, Yunsheng Wang, Chi Song, Jianfeng Zhou, Lijuan Qiu, Hongwen
Huang, and Ying Wang
A single origin and moderate bottleneck during domestication of soybean
(Glycine max): implications from microsatellites and nucleotide sequences
Ann Bot 2010 106: 505-514; doi:10.1093/aob/mcq125.
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/106/3/505?etoc

Tsutomu Ishimaru, Hideyuki Hirabayashi, Masashi Ida, Toshiyuki Takai,
Yumiko A. San-Oh, Satoshi Yoshinaga, Ikuo Ando, Tsugufumi Ogawa, and
Motohiko Kondo
A genetic resource for early-morning flowering trait of wild rice Oryza
officinalis to mitigate high temperature-induced spikelet sterility at
anthesis
Ann Bot 2010 106: 515-520; doi:10.1093/aob/mcq124.
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/106/3/515?etoc

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