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A Century Of Wood Anatomy and 75 Years Of IAWA
A tribute to Lawrence R. Blinks: Ions, light, and algae
Botanical Cyberinfrastructure: Issues, Challenges, Opportunities, and Initiatives
Bringing Together the Living and Dead: Integrating Extant and Fossil Biodiversity in Evolutionary Studies
Deep Time Colloquium
Ecological Responses of Bryophytes to Changing Climate
Ecology and Floristics in Northern California - Current Knowledge and Unexplored Realms
Flora of North America: Synergy with other Botanical Projects
Human Transformation of California: Botany, History, and Sociology
Hybridization as a Stimulus for the Evolution of Invasiveness in Plants
Land Plant Evolution: Phylogenetics and Beyond
Lichens as Bioindicators of Air Quality
New Advances in Fern Ecology
Paleobotany in the Post-Genomics Era
Plenary Symposium: New Directions in Molecular and Organismal Botany
The Comparative - Phylogenetic Method of Reconstructing Evolutionary History
The Evolution of Ericales: Recent Insights using both Morphology and Molecules

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Tuesday, August 1st

Tuesday, August 1st
8:00 am to 10:30 am · 303/Bell Memorial Union
Session 33: Contributed Papers: Economic Botany: Evolution of Cultivated Plants
Presiding: Marshall D Sundberg, Emporia State University
33-1August 1st
8:00 am
303/Bell Memorial UnionNuclear and chloroplast DNA reassessment of the origin of the first European introductions of cultivated potatoes from the Canary Islands
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PaperSpooner, D. M., Ríos, Domingo, Rodriguez, F., Ghislain, Marc.microsatellite
potato
origin
33-2August 1st
8:15 am
303/Bell Memorial UnionEarly pattern formation and the evolution of the maize (Zea mays L.) ear
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PaperSundberg, Marshall D.Zea mays
ear
development
primordia
procambium
33-3August 1st
8:30 am
303/Bell Memorial UnionEffects and ecological consequences of proto-domestication on fruit and seed traits of Chrysophyllum cainito in Panama
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PaperParker, Ingrid M., López, Isis, Petersen, Jennifer J., Potter, Daniel.domestication
ecology
tropical forest
fruit evolution
germination
33-4August 1st
8:45 am
303/Bell Memorial UnionModifications of fruit cell and tissue development patterns in the domestication of the olive
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PaperRapoport, Hava.cell division
cell expansion
wild olive
endocarp
mesocarp
33-6August 1st
9:15 am
303/Bell Memorial UnionGIS-based characterization of the ecological niches of wild and cultivated populations of the Mesoamerican fruit tree Spondias purpurea (Anacardiaceae)
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PaperMiller, Allison, Knouft, Jason.Anacardiaceae
domestication
ecological niche model
Mesoamerica
tropical dry forest
Spondias
GIS
33-7August 1st
9:30 am
303/Bell Memorial UnionRapid evolution in feral cereal rye (Secale cereale L.) from cultivated cereal rye as revealed by reciprocal transplants across its introduced range
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PaperBurger, Jutta, Ellstrand, Norman.rapid evolution
local adaptation
Invasiveness
ferality
August 1st
9:45 am
303/Bell Memorial UnionBreak
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33-8August 1st
10:15 am
303/Bell Memorial UnionWhence the Star Apple: Understanding the role of domestication in shaping present-day distribution of a neo-tropical tree Chrysophyllum cainito (Sapotaceae)
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PaperPetersen, Jennifer J., Parker, Ingrid M., Potter, Daniel.phylogeography
domestication
tropical fruit trees
fruit quality traits
Tuesday, August 1st
10:30 am to 11:00 am · 304/Bell Memorial Union
Session 46: Contributed Papers: Economic Botany: History of Plants and People
Presiding: Marshall D Sundberg, Emporia State University
46-1August 1st
10:30 am
304/Bell Memorial UnionLandmarks and Milestones in American Plant Biology: The Cornell Connection.
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PaperKass, Lee B..history of botany
Cornell University
46-2August 1st
10:45 am
304/Bell Memorial UnionNew Evidence for Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Origins and an Ecological Niche Model for Its Distribution in Mexico
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PaperLentz, David, Bye, Robert, Sanchez-Cordero, Victor.sunflowers
Helianthus annuus L.
México
Tuesday, August 1st
11:00 am to 11:30 am · 304/Bell Memorial Union
Session 47: Contributed Papers: Economic Botany: Applied Plant Biology, Morning
Presiding: Marshall D Sundberg, Emporia State University
47-1August 1st
11:00 am
304/Bell Memorial UnionIn vitro production of guggulsterones in organized and unorganized tissues of Commiphora wightii
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PaperMathur, Meeta, Kumar, S., Ramawat, K.G..Commiphora wightii
47-2August 1st
11:15 am
304/Bell Memorial UnionOrigins, variation and domestication of vanilla: the case of Vanilla tahitensis J.W. Moore
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PaperLubinsky, Pesach, Kim, Seung-Chul.Vanilla
domestication
neotropics
hybridization
Tahiti
polyploidy
Tuesday, August 1st
11:30 am to 1:00 pm · 210/Bell Memorial Union
Luncheon: Economic Botany Lunch
Presiding: D. M. Spooner, USDA-ARS, University of Wisconsin; D. M. Spooner, USDA-ARS, University of Wisconsin
August 1st
11:30 am
210/Bell Memorial UnionLuncheon
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Tuesday, August 1st
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm · Auditorium/Bell Memorial Union
Session 48: Contributed Posters: Economic Botany: Ethnobotany Posters
Presiding: Unknown,
48-72August 1st
12:30 pm
Auditorium/Bell Memorial UnionConserving Seeds in Arizona
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Poster: Economic Botany: EthnobotanyEdwards, Dawn B., Johnson, Jennifer, Rice, Kathy, Butterworth, Charles.seed collection
native plants
land management
precipitation
seed bank
Tuesday, August 1st
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm · Auditorium/Bell Memorial Union
Session 48: Contributed Posters: Economic Botany: Applied Plant Biology, Posters
Presiding: Unknown,
48-70August 1st
12:30 pm
Auditorium/Bell Memorial UnionUse of DNA Biocoding to Detect Adulteration of Star Anise (Illicium verum) by Other Illicium Species
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Poster: Economic Botany: Applied Plant BiologyOttesen, Andrea, Ziobro, George.star anise
Illicium
Tuesday, August 1st
2:00 pm to 2:15 pm · 304/Bell Memorial Union
Session 54: Contributed Papers: Economic Botany: Applied Plant Biology, Afternoon
Presiding: Jason Hlebakos, University of California Riverside
54-6August 1st
2:00 pm
304/Bell Memorial UnionWhat the heck is that? : The creation of a microscopical database/visual atlas for the identification of North American ethnobotanical materials – a modest proposal.
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PaperAlden, Harry, Casavan, Will.database
identification
ethnobotany
Plant Anatomy
Tuesday, August 1st
2:15 pm to 3:00 am · 312/Bell Memorial Union
Session 58: Contributed Papers: Economic Botany: Ethnobotany
Presiding: Jason Hlebakos, University of California Riverside
58-2August 1st
2:15 pm
312/Bell Memorial UnionEvaluation of selected plant material from the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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PaperAlden, Harry, Cunningham, Roland, Dobbins, David, Jantzen, Paul, Ryan, Kevin.Plant Anatomy
Herbaria
fungi
58-3August 1st
2:30 pm
312/Bell Memorial UnionWood analysis of Santos from early Spanish missions in Chihuahua, Mexico and California.
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PaperAlden, Harry, Galvis, Alvero.ethnobotany
Tarahumara
wood anatomy
58-4August 1st
2:45 pm
312/Bell Memorial UnionDiversity of Quararibea funebris in the cenotes of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula
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PaperHlebakos, Jason.cenote
AFLP
microenvironment
ethnobotany
Quararibea
tropical forest
disjunct
Tuesday, August 1st
3:00 pm to 4:15 am · 314/Bell Memorial Union
Meeting: Economic Botany Business Meeting
Presiding: D. M. Spooner, USDA-ARS, University of Wisconsin
August 1st
3:00 pm
314/Bell Memorial UnionEconomic Botany Business Meeting
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