Developmental Genetics of the Flower

Dr. Pamela S. Soltis is a Distinguished Professor and Curator in the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. Prior to moving to Florida in 2000, she was Professor of Botany at Washington State University. She received her Ph.D. in 1986. Research interests include exploration of plant diversity, including reconstructing the tree of life; genome duplication (polyploidy); conservation. She has over 400 published papers and eight books. She served as president of the Society of Systematic Biologists (2004-07) and of the Botanical Society of America (2006-09). She was named a Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida in 2007. She has received the Centennial Award and the Distinguished Fellow Award from the Botanical Society of America. With Doug Soltis, she received the Dahlgren International Prize in Botany (2002), the Asa Gray Award in Plant Systematics (2006), and the Darwin-Wallace Medal from the Linnean Society of London (2016). With coauthors D. Soltis, P. Endress, and M. Chase, she received the Stebbins Medal in 2006 (for Phylogeny and Evolution of Angiosperms). She was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

1. Angiosperm floral evolution: morphological developmental framework
Peter K. Endress

2. Recent developments regarding the evolutionary origin of flowers
Michael W. Frohlich

3. Duplication, Diversification and Comparative Genetics of Angiosperm MADS Box Genes
Vivian F. Irish

4. Beyond the ABC Model: Regulation of Floral Homeotic Genes
Laura M. Zahn, Baomin Feng and Hong Ma

5. Missing links: DNA-binding and target gene specificity of floral homeotic proteins
Rainer Melzer, Kerstin Kaufmann and Günter Theißen

6. Genetics of floral development in Petunia
Anneke Rijpkema, Tom Gerats and Michiel Vandenbussche

7. Flower development: The Antirrhinum perspective
Brendan Davies, Maria Cartolano and Zsuzsanna Schwarz-Sommer

8. Floral developmental genetics of Gerbera (Asteraceae)
Teemu H. Teeri, Mika Kotilainen, Anne Uimari, Satu Ruokolainen, Yan Peng Ng, Ursula Malm, Eija Pöllänen, Suvi Broholm, Roosa Laitinen, Paula Elomaa and Victor A. Albert

9. Gene duplication and floral developmental genetics of basal eudicots
Elena M. Kramer and Elizabeth A. Zimmer

10. Genetics of grass flower development
Clinton J. Whipple and Robert J. Schmidt

11. Developmental Gene Evolution and the Origin of Grass Inflorescence Diversity
Simon T. Malcomber, Jill C. Preston, Renata Reinheimer, Jessie Kossuth and Elizabeth A. Kellogg

12. Expression of Floral Regulators in Basal Angiosperms and the Origin and Evolution of ABC Function
Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Sangtae Kim, Andre Chanderbali, and Matyas Buzgo

13. The molecular evolutionary ecology of plant development: Flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana
Kathleen Engelmann and Michael Purugganan

14. A Genomics Approach To The Study Of Ancient Polyploidy and Floral Developmental Genetics
James H. Leebens-Mack, Kerr Wall, Jill Duarte, Zhengui Zheng, David Oppenheimer and Claude dePamphilis