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Invited Special Papers

Current Issue: May 1 2008; 95 (5) [Table of Contents]

There are no Invited Special Papers in the current issue.
Past Issues:
Jutta C. Burger, Mark A. Chapman, and John M. Burke
Molecular insights into the evolution of crop plants
Am. J. Bot. 2008. 95: 113-122. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Charles Heimsch and James L. Seago Jr.
Organization of the root apical meristem in angiosperms
Am. J. Bot. 2008. 95: 1-21. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]

C. L. Gross
A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes—more monoecy but why?
Am. J. Bot. 2005. 92: 907-919. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]

Lorraine J. Pellack
American Journal of Botany at 90: a librarian perspective
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1945-1948. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jeffrey D. Palmer, Douglas E. Soltis, and Mark W. Chase
The plant tree of life: an overview and some points of view
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1437-1445. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Francois Lutzoni, Frank Kauff, Cymon J. Cox, David McLaughlin, Gail Celio, Bryn Dentinger, Mahajabeen Padamsee, David Hibbett, Timothy Y. James, Elisabeth Baloch, Martin Grube, Valerie Reeb, Valerie Hofstetter, Conrad Schoch, A. Elizabeth Arnold, Jolanta Miadlikowska, Joseph Spatafora, Desiree Johnson, Sarah Hambleton, Michael Crockett, Robert Shoemaker, Gi-Ho Sung, Robert Lucking, Thorsten Lumbsch, Kerry O'Donnell, Manfred Binder, Paul Diederich, Damien Ertz, Cecile Gueidan, Karen Hansen, Richard C. Harris, Kentaro Hosaka, Young-Woon Lim, Brandon Matheny, Hiromi Nishida, Don Pfister, Jack Rogers, Amy Rossman, Imke Schmitt, Harrie Sipman, Jeffrey Stone, Junta Sugiyama, Rebecca Yahr, and Rytas Vilgalys
Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1446-1480. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Erratum]

Patrick J. Keeling
Diversity and evolutionary history of plastids and their hosts
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1481-1493. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Gary W. Saunders and Max H. Hommersand
Assessing red algal supraordinal diversity and taxonomy in the context of contemporary systematic data
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1494-1507. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Robert A. Andersen
Biology and systematics of heterokont and haptophyte algae
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1508-1522. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jeremiah D. Hackett, Donald M. Anderson, Deana L. Erdner, and Debashish Bhattacharya
Dinoflagellates: a remarkable evolutionary experiment
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1523-1534. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Louise A. Lewis and Richard M. McCourt
Green algae and the origin of land plants
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1535-1556. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]

Jonathan Shaw and Karen Renzaglia
Phylogeny and diversification of bryophytes
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1557-1581. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Kathleen M. Pryer, Eric Schuettpelz, Paul G. Wolf, Harald Schneider, Alan R. Smith, and Raymond Cranfill
Phylogeny and evolution of ferns (monilophytes) with a focus on the early leptosporangiate divergences
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1582-1598. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]

J. Gordon Burleigh and Sarah Mathews
Phylogenetic signal in nucleotide data from seed plants: implications for resolving the seed plant tree of life
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1599-1613. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Pamela S. Soltis and Douglas E. Soltis
The origin and diversification of angiosperms
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1614-1626. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Walter S. Judd and Richard G. Olmstead
A survey of tricolpate (eudicot) phylogenetic relationships
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1627-1644. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Mark W. Chase
Monocot relationships: an overview
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1645-1655. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Michael J. Sanderson, Jeffrey L. Thorne, Niklas Wikstrom, and Kare Bremer
Molecular evidence on plant divergence times
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1656-1665. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

William L. Crepet, Kevin C. Nixon, and Maria A. Gandolfo
Fossil evidence and phylogeny: the age of major angiosperm clades based on mesofossil and macrofossil evidence from Cretaceous deposits
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1666-1682. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Peter R. Crane, Patrick Herendeen, and Else Marie Friis
Fossils and plant phylogeny
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1683-1699. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

C. Randal Linder and Loren H. Rieseberg
Reconstructing patterns of reticulate evolution in plants
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1700-1708. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Elizabeth A. Kellogg and Jeffrey L. Bennetzen
The evolution of nuclear genome structure in seed plants
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1709-1725. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

William E. Friedman, Richard C. Moore, and Michael D. Purugganan
The evolution of plant development
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1726-1741. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Dorota Kwiatkowska
Structural integration at the shoot apical meristem: models, measurements, and experiments
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1277-1293. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Sean W. Graham and Spencer C. H. Barrett
Phylogenetic reconstruction of the evolution of stylar polymorphisms in Narcissus (Amaryllidaceae)
Am. J. Bot. 2004. 91: 1007-1021. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]

Verne Grant
Incongruence between cladistic and taxonomic systems
Am. J. Bot. 2003. 90: 1263-1270. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Karl J. Niklas
The Bio-Logic and machinery of plant morphogenesis
Am. J. Bot. 2003. 90: 515-525. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Johan Gielis
A generic geometric transformation that unifies a wide range of natural and abstract shapes
Am. J. Bot. 2003. 90: 333-338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Dominick J. Paolillo Jr and Richard W. Zobel
The formation of adventitious roots on root axes is a widespread occurrence in field-grown dicotyledonous plants
Am. J. Bot. 2002. 89: 1361-1372. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Mordecai J. Jaffe, A. Carl Leopold, and Richard C. Staples
Thigmo responses in plants and fungi
Am. J. Bot. 2002. 89: 375-382. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Donald R. Kaplan
The science of plant morphology: definition, history, and role in modern biology
Am. J. Bot. 2001. 88: 1711-1741. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Robert Turgeon, Richard Medville, and Kevin C. Nixon
The evolution of minor vein phloem and phloem loading
Am. J. Bot. 2001. 88: 1331-1339. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Naoki Takebayashi and Peter L. Morrell
Is self-fertilization an evolutionary dead end? Revisiting an old hypothesis with genetic theories and a macroevolutionary approach
Am. J. Bot. 2001. 88: 1143-1150. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Daniel J. Fairbanks and Bryce Rytting
Mendelian controversies: a botanical and historical review
Am. J. Bot. 2001. 88: 737-752. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]

Sherwin Carlquist and Edward L. Schneider
Vessels in ferns: structural, ecological, and evolutionary significance
Am. J. Bot. 2001. 88: 1-13. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Colin M. Orians
The effects of hybridization in plants on secondary chemistry: implications for the ecology and evolution of plant–herbivore interactions
Am. J. Bot. 2000. 87: 1749-1756. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Elison B. Blancaflor and Simon Gilroy
Plant cell biology in the new millennium: new tools and new insights
Am. J. Bot. 2000. 87: 1547-1560. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jennifer Walker-Larsen and Lawrence D. Harder
The evolution of staminodes in angiosperms: patterns of stamen reduction, loss, and functional re-invention
Am. J. Bot. 2000. 87: 1367-1384. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Michael L. Cain, Brook G. Milligan, and Allan E. Strand
Long-distance seed dispersal in plant populations
Am. J. Bot. 2000. 87: 1217-1227. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Judith L. Croxdale
Stomatal patterning in angiosperms
Am. J. Bot. 2000. 87: 1069-1080. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Javier Francisco-Ortega, Arnoldo Santos-Guerra, Seung-Chul Kim, and Daniel J. Crawford
Plant genetic diversity in the Canary Islands: a conservation perspective
Am. J. Bot. 2000. 87: 909-919. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Brayton F. Wilson
Apical control of branch growth and angle in woody plants
Am. J. Bot. 2000. 87: 601-607. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jeremy Pickett-Heaps, Brian E. Gunning, Roy Brown, Betty Lemmon, and Ann Cleary
The cytoplast concept in dividing plant cells: cytoplasmic domains and the evolution of spatially organized cell division
Am. J. Bot. 1999. 86: 153-172. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

J. S. Clark, B. Beckage, P. Camill, B. Cleveland, J. HilleRisLambers, J. Lichter, J. McLachlan, J. Mohan, and P. Wyckoff
Interpreting recruitment limitation in forests
Am. J. Bot. 1999. 86: 1-16. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

William P. Jacobs
Hormone transport and action in the green shoot:long-term studies of a clonal stock of Coleus blumei(Labiatae)
Am. J. Bot. 1998. 85: 1353-1363. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

MJ Canny
Applications of the compensating pressure theory of water transport
Am. J. Bot. 1998. 85: 897-897. [Abstract] [PDF]

V Grant
Primary classification and phylogeny of the Polemoniaceae, with comments on molecular cladistics
Am. J. Bot. 1998. 85: 741-741. [Abstract] [PDF]

VB Smocovitis
G. Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. and the evolutionary synthesis (1924-1950)
Am. J. Bot. 1997. 84: 1625-1625. [Abstract] [PDF]

D Southworth and M Cresti
Comparison of flagellated and nonflagellated sperm in plants
Am. J. Bot. 1997. 84: 1301-1301. [Abstract] [PDF]

KA Pyke
The genetic control of plastid division in higher plants
Am. J. Bot. 1997. 84: 1017-1017. [Abstract] [PDF]

EA Kellogg and ND Juliano
The structure and function of RuBisCO and their implications for systematic studies
Am. J. Bot. 1997. 84: 413-413. [Abstract] [PDF]


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