Categorization of plant ontogeny : a summary

[Martin Dubé]

Hello Taxacomers,

Some days ago, I put on Taxacom the following request :

> I am interested in finding papers in Systematics concerned with
> plant variation as a result of developmental and/or growth
> processes described quantitatively.   This seems to be a gray zone in
> taxonomic literature.  Any suggestions ?

You will find below the list of suggested readings received from
each kind contributor.

You will note the diversity of papers.  I've tried to write my request
as clearly as possible but such a statement concerns all aspects
of the systematic process of converting organisms into objective
characters.  So, is it possible to use ontogenetical data in defining
new taxonomic characters, in measuring affinity or, at least, in
better understanding the characters already used ?  Clearly, the
following papers may help to make progress in this search.

Good reading !

Martin

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Diego Medan 1985 Fruit morphogenesis and
seed dispersal in the Colletieae (Rhamnaceae) I. The genus
Discaria Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 105:205-262

Ritterbusch, A. 1976 Die Organopoiese der Bl=FCte von Calceolaria
tripartita R. et P. (Scrophulariaceae) Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 95 267-320
and references therein

from :
Hartmut H. Hilger,  Institut fuer Systematische Botanik
und Pflanzengeographie, FU Berlin
hahilger at zedat.fu-berlin.de
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The following discusses the taxonomic importance of the type of
shoot elongation:
Critchfield, W. B. 1971. Shoot growth and heterophylly in
Acer. Journal of the Arnold arboretum. 52: 240-266.

The following describes leaf developmental processes quantitatively:
McLellan, T. 1993. The roles of heterochrony and heteroblasty in
the diversification of leaf shapes in Begonia dregei (Begoniaceae).
American Journal of Botany 80(7): 796-804.

seasonal leaf polymorphism is quite what you are looking for, but if
so, then the following combination of papers is worth
a look:
Critchfield, W. B. 1960. Leaf dimorphism in Populus trichocarpa.
American Journal of Botany 47: 699-711.

Eckenwalder, J. E. 1980. Foliar heteromorphism in Populus
(Salicaceae), a source of confusion in the taxonomy of tertiary leaf
remains. Systematic Botany 5(4): 366-383.

Clark, D. B., Clark, D. A. & Grayum, M. H. 1992. Leaf demography
of a neotropical rain forest cycad, Zamia skinneri (Zamiaceae).
American Journal of Botany 79(1): 28-33.

Clausen, J. J. & Kozlowski, T. T. 1965. Heterophyllous shoots in
Betula papyrifera. Nature 205: 1030-1031.

Critchfield, W. B. 1970. Shoot growth and heterophylly in Ginkgo
biloba. Botanical Gazette 131(2): 150-162.

Critchfield, W. B. 1970. Shoot growth and leaf dimorphism in
boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata). American Journal of
Botany 57(5): 535-542.

Dancik, B. P. & Barnes, B. V. 1974. Leaf diversity in yellow birch
(Betula alleghaniensis). Canadian Journal of Botany 52: 2407-2414.

Dickinson, T. A. & Phipps, J. B. 1984. Studies in Crataegus
(Rosaceae: Maloideae). IX. Short-shoot leaf heteroblasty in
Crataegus crus-galli sensu lato. Canadian Journal of Botany 62:
1775-1780.

Eckenwalder, J. E. 1980. Taxonomy of the West Indian cycads.
Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 61(4): 701-722.


Here are some more quantitative papers that might be of interest:

Evans, R. C. & Dickinson, T. A. 1996. North American black-fruited
hawthorns. II. Floral development of 10- and 20-stamen
morphotypes in Crataegus section Douglasii (Rosaceae:
Maloideae). American Journal of Botany 83(8): 961-978.

Jeune, B. & Sattler, R. 1992. Multivariate analysis in process
morphology of plants. Journal of Theoretical Biology 156: 147-167.

Kampny, C. M., Dickinson, T. A. & Dengler, N. G. 1994.
Quantitative floral development in Pseudolysimachion
(Scrophulariaceae): Intraspecific variation and comparison with
Veronica and Veronicastrum. American Journal of Botany. 81:
1343-1353. And the references listed therein.

from :
Nadia Talent, Department of Botany, University of Toronto
nadia.talent at utoronto.ca
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Note from M.D.:
According to the contributor, the following references have already
been cited on Taxacom. So, once again :

Alberch, P., Gould, S. J., Oster, G., and Wake, D. B. (1979). Size
and shape in ontogeny and phylogeny. Paleobiology 5, 296-317.

Andersson, S. (1996). Flower-fruit size allometry at three
taxonomic levels in Crepis (Asteraceae). Biological Journal of the
Linnean Society 58, 401-407.

Bateman, R. M., and DiMichelle, W. A. (1994). Saltational
evolution of form in vascular plants: a neoGoldschmidtian
synthesis. In 'Shape and Form in Plants and Fungi'. (Eds D. S.
Ingram and A. Hudson.)  pp. 63-102. (Academic Press: London.)

Crane, P. R., and Kenrick, P. (1997). Diverted development of
reproductive organs: a source of morphological innovation
in land plants. Plant Systematics and Evolution 206, 161-174.

Crisp, M. D., and Weston, P. H. (1993). Geographic and
ontogenetic variation in morphology of Australian waratahs
(Telopea: Proteaceae). Systematic Biology 42, 49-76.

Diggle, P. K. (1995). Architectural effects and the
interpretation of patterns of fruit and seed development. Annual
Review of Ecology ad Systematics 26, 531-552.

Diggle, P. K. (1997). Ontogenetic contingency and floral
morphology: the effects of architecture and resource limitation.
International Journal of Plant Sciences 158, S99-S107.

Fenster, C. B., and Galloway, L. F. (1997). Developmental
homeostasis and floral form: evolutionary consequences and
genetic basis.  International Journal of Plant Sciences 158, S121-
S130.

Fink, W. L. (1988). Phylogenetic analysis and the detection of
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Frohlich, M. W., and Meyerowitz, E. M. (1997). The search for
flower homeotic gene homologs in basal angiosperms and
Gnetales: a potential new source of data on the evolutionary origin
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Gilbert, S. F., Opitz, J. M., and Raff, R. A. (1996). Resynthesizing
evolutionary and developmental biology. Developmental Biology
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Guerrant, E. O., Jr. (1982). Neotenic evolution of Delphinium
nudicaule (Ranunculaceae): a hummingbird-pollinated larkspur.
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Guerrant, E. O., Jr. (1988). Heterochrony in plants: the intersection
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Hufford, L. (1997). The roles of ontogenetic evolution in the origins
of floral homoplasies. International Journal of Plant Sciences 158,
S65-S80.

Kampny, C. M., and Dengler, N. G. (1997). Evolution of flower
shape in Veroniceae (Scrophulariaceae). Plant Systematics and
Evolution 205, 1-25.

Klingenberg, C. P., and Ekau, W. (1996). A combined
morphometric and phylogenetic analysis of an ecomorphological
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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 59, 143-177.

Leins, P., and Erbar, C. (1997). Floral developmental studies:
some old and new questions. International Journal of Plant
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Losos, J. B. (1996). Phylogenies and comparative biology, stage II.
Testing causal hypotheses derived from phylogenies with data from
extant taxa. Systematic Biology 45, 259-260.

Mabee, P. M., and Humphries, J. (1993). Coding polymorphic data:
examples from allozymes and ontogeny. Systematic Biology 42,
166-181.

Richards, F. J. (1951). Phyllotaxis: its quantitative expression and
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Riedl, R. (1978). 'Order in Living Organisms.' 1st edn. (Wiley:
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Rohlf, F. J. (1998). On applications of geometric morphometrics
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Sattler, R. (1988). A dynamic multidimensional approach to floral
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Sattler, R. (1988). Homeosis in plants. American Journal of Botany
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Sattler, R. (1990). Towards a more dynamic plant morphology. Acta
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Sattler, R. (1992). Process morphology:structural dynamics in
development and evolution. Canadian Journal of Botany 70, 708-
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Sattler, R., and Rutihauser, R. (1990). Structural and dynamic
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Sattler, R., and Rutishauser, R. (1997). The fundamental relevance
of morphology and morphogenesis to plant research. Annals of
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Thorpe, R. S. (1983). A biometric study of the effects of growth on
the analysis of geographic variation: Tooth number in Green
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Velhagen, W. A. (1997). Analyzing developmental sequences
using sequence units. Systematic Biology 46, 204-210.

Wiltshire, R. J. E., Potts, B. M., and Reid, J. B. (1991). A
paedomorphocline in Eucalyptus: natural variation in the E. risdonii/
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159-167.

from :
Michael D. Crisp  Division of Botany and Zoology
Australian National University
mike.crisp at anu.edu.au
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