Systematic biology studies the organization and origin of biological diversity. Systematists
analyze patterns of variation among the products of evolution (species) and attempt to infer …

The impact of molecular systematics, especially DNA sequences, on plant taxonomy and
biosystematics has been fundamental and era‐splitting. It has led to reactions by …

A diverse array of molecular approaches is now available to the plant systematist for use in
phylogenetic inference, including restriction site analysis, comparative sequencing, analysis …

The field of molecular systematics has developed rapidly in response to innovations in
molecular biology such as recombinant DNA technology, the polymerase chain reaction …

While DNA sequence data have made tremendous contributions to plant phylogenetics, a
notable shortcom-ing has been the resolution of relationships among close-ly related …

While the theory of evolution was generally accepted early in this century, many implications
of this theory, at least with respect to the issue of hereditary material, had yet to be …

Numerous DNA regions representing the nuclear and both organellar genomes are now
available for comparative sequencing in plants (see Chapter 1); in addition, morphological …

During the past decade, the tools of molecular biology have been applied to plant
systematics with remarkable success. New insights have been gained into such topics as …

In the five years since the publication of Molecular Systematics of Plants, the field of
molecular systematics has advanced at an astonishing pace. This period has been marked …

With increasing frequency, systematic and evolutionary biologists have turned to the
techniques of molecular biology to complement their traditional morphological and …