Uses of molecular markers in the phylogenetic studies of various organisms have become
increasingly important in recent times. This review gives an overview of different molecular …

The flora of the south-western tip of southern Africa, the Cape flora, with some 9000 species
in an area of 90000 km2 is much more speciose than can be expected from its area or …

Friedman WE, RC Moore, and MD Purugganan. 2004. The evolution of plant development.
Am. J. Bot. 91: 1726–1741. Friis EM, PR Crane, and KP Pedersen. 1997. Fossil history of …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

The concept of 'Gondwana', an ancient Southern Hemisphere supercontinent, is firmly
established in geological and biogeographical models of Earth history. The term Gondwana …

Angiosperm leaves manifest a remarkable diversity of shapes that range from
developmental sequences within a shoot and within crown response to microenvironment to …

Improved phylogenies and the accumulation of broad comparative data sets have opened
the way for phylogenetic analyses to trace trait evolution in major groups of organisms. We …

Seed dispersal is a fundamental life history trait in plants. Although the recent surge of
interest in seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) has added greatly to knowledge on the …

Abstract Following (1) the large-scale molecular phylogeny of seed plants based on plastid
rbcL gene sequences (published in 1993 by Chase et al., Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 80: 528 …

Recent contributions from DNA sequences have revolutionized our concept of systematic
relationships in angiosperms. However, parts of the angiosperm tree remain unclear …