In this issue:

Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 0. [Full Text]  

Ecology:

Ewald Weber and Carla M. D'Antonio

Germination and growth responses of hybridizing Carpobrotus species (Aizoaceae) from coastal California to soil salinity
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1257-1263. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

J. Stephen Brewer

Short-term effects of fire and competition on growth and plasticity of the yellow pitcher plant, Sarracenia alata (Sarraceniaceae)
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1264-1271. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

David D. Ackerly and Peter B. Reich

Convergence and correlations among leaf size and function in seed plants: a comparative test using independent contrasts
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1272-1281. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Mycology and Plant Pathology:

James D. Bever and Joseph Morton

Heritable variation and mechanisms of inheritance of spore shape within a population of Scutellospora pellucida, an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1209-1216. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Physiology and Development:

Xiaojie Li, Jerry M. Baskin, and Carol C. Baskin

Comparative morphology and physiology of fruit and seed development in the two shrubs Rhus aromatica and R. glabra (Anacardiaceae)
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1217-1225. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Population Biology:

Brian Keane, Stephan Pelikan, Greg P. Toth, M. Kate Smith, and Steven H. Rogstad

Genetic diversity of Typha latifolia (Typhaceae) and the impact of pollutants examined with tandem-repetitive DNA probes
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1226-1238. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Reproductive Biology:

Susan Kalisz, Donna Vogler, Brook Fails, Matt Finer, Erica Shepard, Tara Herman, and Rebecca Gonzales

The mechanism of delayed selfing in Collinsia verna (Scrophulariaceae)
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1239-1247. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Thomas N. Kaye

From flowering to dispersal: reproductive ecology of an endemic plant, Astragalus australis var. olympicus (Fabaceae)
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1248-1256. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Systematics:

Alex Widmer and Matthias Baltisberger

Molecular evidence for allopolyploid speciation and a single origin of the narrow endemic Draba ladina (Brassicaceae)
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1282-1289. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Kathleen A. Kron, Walter S. Judd, and Darren M. Crayn

Phylogenetic analyses of Andromedeae (Ericaceae subfam. Vaccinioideae)
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1290-1300. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Susanne S. Renner

Circumscription and phylogeny of the Laurales: evidence from molecular and morphological data
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1301-1315. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Donald J. Padgett, Donald H. Les, and Garrett E. Crow

Phylogenetic relationships in Nuphar (Nymphaeaceae): evidence from morphology, chloroplast DNA, and nuclear ribosomal DNA
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1316-1324. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Alan W. Meerow, Michael F. Fay, Charles L Guy, Qin-Bao Li, Faridah Q Zaman, and Mark W. Chase

Systematics of Amaryllidaceae based on cladistic analysis of plastid sequence data
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1325-1345. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Systematics and Phytogeography:

Steven J. Wagstaff, Peter B. Heenan, and Michael J. Sanderson

Classification, origins, and patterns of diversification in New ZealandCarmichaelinae (Fabaceae)
Am. J. Bot. 1999 86: 1346-1356. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

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