Dissertation Research: Systematics and Evolution of ColumneaSection Pentadenia (Gesneriaceae)
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Graduate student J. F. Smith proposes a monographic revision               and evolutionary study of the neotropical plant genus Columnea                  section Pentadenia.  Under the direction of his major professor                 K. J. Sytsma, Mr. Smith will collect representatives of the South               American species and characterize their reproductive morphology,                chloroplast DNA sequences, and nuclear ribosomal DNA restriction                patterns.  The molecular data will be used to establish the                     evolutionary relationships among living species, and the                        reproductive structures will be interpreted against this                        evolutionary framework.                                                              The proposed study will increase our understanding of a                    poorly known tropical plant genus, and will use the most advanced               means for unravelling their evolutionary history.  By combining                 molecular approaches to evolutionary history with morphological                 data on functional characters, the project will illuminate the                  broad question of adaptation.
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{'Code': '112700', 'Text': 'Evolutionary Processes'}
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