Compared to animals, plants have been largely neglected in Evolutionary Developmental biology.
This will be informative reading for anyone in the field of Plant evo-devo, from students to lecturers and researchers..
Also discussed is the hitherto neglected topic of the evolvability of temporal phenotypes like a plant\'s annual, biennial or perennial life cycle, flowering time and the timing of abscission of flower organs.
Topics covered include leaf complexity and the evolution of flower organs, handedness, branching patterns, flower symmetry and synorganization, and less conventional topics such as fractal patterns of Plant organization.
In this volume, Minelli fills this gap using the same approach he gave to animals, revisiting traditional concepts and providing an articulated analysis of genetic and molecular data.
No integrated account is available.
Mainstream research has focused on Developmental genetics, while a rich body of knowledge in comparative morphology is still to be exploited.
Compared to animals, plants have been largely neglected in Evolutionary Developmental biology
